Scandinavia Airlines are on strike

SAS is on strike! Makes a long day for me. So if you are flying with SAS you will need to rebook.

With the delays and cancellations they had in the last couple of months, they are getting more than they deserved. Last thursday and friday they cancelled the Seattle-Copenhagen flight, two days in a row just 1 hour before flight. Very unfriendly crew as well.

Another story about SAS. I was in one of the above mentioned flights on 1st of April. Just about an hour before the landing, pilot announced that Copenhagen airport is closed so we will need to land in Oslo or Stockholm. I had a very short connection to Munich and obviously got frustrated. Half an hour later guy sitting next to me who had a connection to Hamburg called the stewardess and asked what shall we do? the stewardess laughed and told him that it was a joke. Pilot never announced that it was a joke, and some people figured out that we are in Copenhagen after we landed.

So I made it to Hamburg with Lufthansa and have a SAS ticket to Copenhagen that leaves at 15:15 and has not yet been cancelled. As I have to reach Copehagen today, my other option is to take train at 13:25 from Hamburg Hbf. My luggage is checked through, which I have to collect... this is a pain in the buttock. Anynews on the strike? I can check here as well, but Lufthansa is not saying anything (and there is no SAS office here).

Finally made it to Copenhagen...Ended up taking the train, which takes the ferry...

There's a note on the SAS homepage as follows:

Here in Denmark I heard the crew is striking because they have a three person cabin crew, where most airlines have five. Competing against the cheap airlines makes the old airline cut coners. Old man Marx said human labor is the one point to reduce the price of production. He wasn't wrong.

And still not sorted today, I am having to book my travellers up and down via vienna and frankfurt. SAS didnt even bother to contact all the major travel agencies to tell them about it, but hey, they have a monopoly on the munich copenhagen stretch so they wont give a.

I hope it is resolved by Sunday (when I should fly back to Stuttgart from Copenhagen).

That must be dependding on size of the plane. On a 767 (which SAS have) five cabin staff will be really stretched.

IMHO Lufthansa have 3 on 737s & A320s, LH-Cityline have 2 in Canadairs.
I dont know about Air Berlin - a friend of mine is captain on AB 737 so I coould e-mail him...

In March I was supposed to travel to Copenhagen from Munich with SAS. On the morning of the flight I got an email to say the flight was cancelled (no reasons given), so they were putting me on an flight leaving 5 hours earlier. No apologies, no explanation.

It wouldn't have been so terrible if I had been contacted even the day before, or the proposed alternative didn't mean me begging my boss to be able to leave early and getting my boyfriend to go home and pack for both of us to make the flight. We got there in the end, still no apologies or explanation.

After paying so much for the ticket I would have hoped for better service. I just know now I'll do everything possible to avoid SAS in the future, especially after reading this thread and realising it wasn't an isolated incident.

Agree. Next time Lufthansa, even if it cost more.

forbes: SAS Refuses to Negotiation with union

It better be fixed by May 23rd!!! Or I am going to be an unhappy camper. Good thing I booked through the airline though...Makes it easier to deal with them...I think...
Better fix it...

See my vent from earlier this month.

The vent

unfortunately my company has booked me on SAS again (same connections) in order to save a few euro over the lufthansa price.

It is over (for now)!
Three-day SAS strike ends, flights to resume Friday


Complicated issue...
SAS strike threat over Chinese stewards

So the issue is crew size:

SAS Strike Over

By larger crews they mean Scandinavians instead of Chinese?