“SAS strike – then blixthöjer Norwegian”
“During the Friday morning went SAS-pilots out on strike.”
“Total affected 170 000 travellers during the weekend.”
“Then the Norwegian to take the 9 000 sek for a ticket to Stockholm.”
“During the Friday morning news came that both the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish SAS pilots go out on strike. “
“Total affected 673 flights and tens of thousands of travelers by the news.”
“the SAS already offered during the Wednesday their travelers to book their tickets but several have heard of to Aftonbladet and testified about out-of-print travel and long telephone queues. “
“at the same time that SAS is trying to solve the crisis for its travelers, it fits the competing company Norwegian to blixthöja the price of their tickets.”
“at the time Of writing the costs of a trip in the afternoon between Oslo and Stockholm, just over 9 000 sek for those travelers who choose to book via the airline’s own website. “
“Even the earlier flights low at around 8 00 kronor, Norwegian E24 was the first to pay attention to.”
“at the same time is a train with SJ on the same stretch of between 500 and 1 000 kronor. “
“”Supply and demand””
“But according to Norwegian themselves is the price increase nothing strange. “
” Prices are governed as usual by supply and demand. We are now experiencing an extraordinary increase and then it is quite natural that the prices to be adjusted, ” says Lasse Sandaker-Nielsen, communications manager at Norwegian to E24.”
“He said that several of the company’s departures already sold out, and you do not have the opportunity to offer more flights with such short notice.”
“Terje Berger in the Norwegian söksajten Finn.no has made an overview of today’s air fares, which he compares with the prices in the summer then a trip to tir and return between Stockholm and Oslo was around a thousand patches. “
“– It shows that there has been a åttadubbling of the prices, he says to E24 and continues:”
” I am confident that the SAS had done the same thing if the Norwegian went out on strike. “