Norwegian airline grounds all flights in Scandinavia
Thousands of passengers have been stranded across Scandinavia after budget airline, Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS), cancelled all flights in the Nordic region and several other European cities as Swedish and Danish pilots joined their striking Norwegian colleagues.
The work stoppage entered its fifth day on Wednesday and expanded to 650 NAS pilots, after some 70 staff members initially walked out on February 28 following the failure of negotiations on a collective agreement a day earlier.
Norwegian Air Shuttle, which is Europe’s third-largest budget airline, said in a statement on March 3 that Wednesday’s industrial action was set to hit more than 35,000 passengers.
“Despite repeated attempts by management to engage in constructive discussions to prevent a hardening of the strike, dialogue was not possible,” the Norwegian airline said in the statement, adding, “This unfortunately leads to the cancellation of all domestic flights in Norway, Sweden and Denmark... All departures between Scandinavian capitals are also cancelled.”
The Norwegian strike also affected a number of journeys to other European cities, including flights between the Norwegian and German capital cities of Oslo and Berlin, German city of Hamburg and the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, and from the Norwegian cities of Bergen and Stavanger to the British capital city of London.
NAS, which in 2014 posted its first loss in eight years, aims to slash the costs and benefits for pilots, and increase job flexibility.
The striking NAS pilots demand strong organizational links with the parent company so that their jobs and salary conditions for all pilots employed in various Scandinavian subsidiaries will be safeguarded.
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