Danish cabin crews have lost faith on SAS - report

Airline Industry Information, March 18, 2004

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Danish cabin crews have reportedly lost faith in the Scandinavian airline SAS's future and claim the company will go under if it is not restructured.

The cabin crews had also reportedly said that they have doubts that they will ever reach an agreement with the management.

"SAS is dying, and we do not deserve to survive as the company is run today," Verner Lundtoft Jensen, foreman for the Danish cabin crews, reportedly told the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende on Thursday (18 March).

"Even if we worked for free, this would only cover about half of SAS's deficit on the intercontinental routes," the foreman was quoted as saying, referring to the ongoing negotiations between Danish and Swedish cabin crews and SAS.

The SAS management has told the labour unions that there would be consequences if the employees do not accept a salary reduction, and has threatened to cut several routes, reported the Norwegian online news provider Nettavisen.

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