MORE CUTS AT SAS

Info-Prod Research (Middle East), May, 2003

Svein Oppegord, SAS Norway's personnel manager, has said that the company will start negotiations with staff unions over the loss of an initial 155 full-time jobs. "We are talking about redundancies which we will try to make effective from 1 November. The job losses are linked to changes in flight schedules.

In addition to this, we will be implementing changes of a more structural nature at a later date. In total we are talking about the equivalent of around 320 full-time jobs," said Mr. Oppegord. SAS has a total of 1,358 cabin crew members in Norway, which make up the equivalent of some 900 full-time jobs.(Source: Odin.dep.no)