Hundreds of SAS passengers already felt the effects of the strike on Sunday, when traffic to Hamburg was disrupted by what the airport called an unannounced strike.
On Monday, the strike effects became significantly greater. SAS has cancelled five flights from Copenhagen, Oslo, and Arlanda to German airports – including the morning flight Arlanda-Berlin – and an additional 14 flights from German airports to Scandinavia.
"Approximately 2,000 SAS passengers are affected today," writes Irena Busic on SAS press desk in an SMS to TT.
The strike effect is also more pronounced on flights from Germany than to Germany. This is because security personnel at the airports – who are needed to control access to the departure halls – are participating in the strike.
Money back
Affected passengers are being rebooked on new flights, but can also get their money back, according to SAS press desk.
For Norwegian, it concerns flights between Stockholm and Berlin on Monday. The same applies to Copenhagen, while in Oslo, flights to and from Berlin, Hamburg, and Düsseldorf are cancelled, according to Charlotte Holmbergh, communications manager at Norwegian.
About 1,000 passengers are affected, says Holmbergh.
According to Holmbergh, all passengers affected by the strike effects have received information from Norwegian.
We have set up extra flights to Hamburg and Düsseldorf tomorrow (Tuesday), but to Berlin, we have very many departures, so passengers can choose to either get their money back or rebook for the next day, says Holmbergh.
Demanding higher wages
In total, 3,400 flights are cancelled due to the German strike, affecting 510,000 passengers, reports the German media group Deutsche Welle (DW) with reference to the industry organization ADV.
The German airline Lufthansa warns of delays and cancellations on all lines at the affected airports: Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin-Brandenburg, and Leipzig-Halle.
The strike is being carried out by the German trade union Verdi, demanding higher wages, after a second round of negotiations with employers did not yield a new agreement.
