Sigtuna residents react to shock message: "Maybe can not stay"

SAS, like other airlines, was hit exceptionally hard by the pandemic, when air traffic shrank dramatically.

On Tuesday, the news came that the company will save itself from the crisis.

The annual costs will be reduced by 7.5 billion.

Whether there will be redundancies, and if so how extensive, is not known.

SAS tells SVT Sigtuna that there will be no local impact.

If the company still cannot avoid redundancies this year or next year, Sigtuna is particularly vulnerable.

- If it is, it will have some effect.

We know that a lot of SAS employees live locally, says Mathias Forsberg, Sigtuna municipality's business manager.

The savings condition known

On the streets of the old wooden houses in Sigtuna, knowledge of the savings condition was already widespread.

- For us, it can mean smaller customers.

And thus less money for the plant, says Åse Södersved, air traffic controller in the tower at Arlanda and employed by the Swedish Civil Aviation Authority.

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