the Clock is approaching soon seven on Friday morning, and the frustration among passengers is in the air. At Arlanda airport, terminal five, is the SAS staff ready to answer air passengers ‘ questions. While some complain about not having received enough information to decide other to stand in the long queue, about 50 people are standing, to get help in desk to book their tickets.
“I was awake at the stroke of midnight in the night to see if there will be any airline strikes, but I had no information about the strike or how my specific journey influenced from the SAS, they should have prepared much better,” says Maria Vyatkina, 29 years old, that would have gone to St. Petersburg during the Friday morning.
Maria Vyatkina would have gone to Russia, but is stuck at the airport. Photo: Magnus Hallgren
that has been hit is Ibragim Uzhachov. With a confused facial expression, he asks why the flights do not lift. Ibragim Uzhachov says he has not received the information via e-mail or sms about the strike. Similarly, he had not heard of the situation which makes him anxious. Several times he asks DN:s reporter why the strike has occurred.
Ibragim Uzhachov get the help of an SAS employee at the airport. Photo: Magnus Hallgren
– this creates a big problem for me, I think they could have contacted me since I am now stuck at the airport.
“I have no idea, possibly I try to book my ticket but I don’t know what that is, since SAS does not have contacted me,” he says, and adds that the flight would have left at 07.20.
pilots from the SAS goes on strike in the whole of Scandinavia. After a long period of negotiations failed, the airline and the pilots from the SPG, the SAS Pilot Group, to agree. Card is the conflict about wages, scheduling and working conditions.
SAS has estimated that approximately 70.000 passengers are affected in Sweden during the Friday. Yesterday evening, put the airline in hundreds of flights over the weekend as a preventative measure.
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the Long wait for SAS travellers. Photo: Magnus Hallgren
