This involves between 200 and 250 aircraft daily, which means that the number of canceled flights will be even more.
Up to 30,000 passengers are affected globally every day.
Negotiations took place over the weekend between SAS Scandinavia's pilot associations and SAS.
The deadline was set for Monday at 12.00 (Swedish time).
At 12.20 on Monday, SAS CEO Anko van der Werff announced:
- This is really, really bad news.
We are devastated, he says to the media gathered outside.
- It is bad for investors.
We are talking about 8,000 jobs, he said.
The strike was supposed to have broken out on Wednesday last week (June 29), but the deadline was moved to Saturday and then once again, to Monday at lunch.
SAS states that information about canceled plans has been posted on the company's website, they are marked "Probably canceled if the strike occurs".
SAS offers rebooking of flights that may be affected.