Flight cancellations in Scandinavia: strike at SAS affects more than 72,000 passengers

Thousands of passengers of the Scandinavian airline SAS are affected by a pilot strike. Due to a collective bargaining dispute, around 1,400 pilots in Norway, Sweden and Denmark have quit work early Friday morning. During the day, 673 flights and more than 72,000 passengers will be affected, SAS said.

Also, connections to Germany were canceled: SAS flights were canceled on Friday from Copenhagen to Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich, from Stockholm to Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Dusseldorf and from Oslo to Munich and Berlin.

SAS partners, who make about 30 percent of all air travel, were not affected by the strike, it said. The pilots demand 2.3 percent more wages and more predictability in everyday work.