When the Swedish Pilot Association, SPF, and SAS meet today to resume negotiations, the pilot strike has entered its ninth day.

The strike is estimated to cost the Scandinavian airline around one hundred million kronor a day, which means that the total bill now amounts to almost one billion kronor.

According to SVT's financial commentator Kristina Lagerström, there are still great tensions at the negotiating table, but in order to stop the money bleeding, the parties may be forced to reach a solution soon.

- It is a very difficult mediation and difficult negotiations because they are terribly far apart.

The reason why they should now be seen is rather that they should speed up the process.

This can not last forever, says Kristina Lagerström in Morgonstudion.

"Will make concessions"

The Swedish Pilot Association has demanded that the pilots who have been laid off during the pandemic be re-employed and that employment not be transferred to staffing companies.

- What the analyst says, that it will be resolved within a few days, is probably based more on the realization that you can not pay day after day for this strike rather than that you have gotten closer to each other.

It is SAS that has wanted to speed up this and they will make concessions, says Kristina Lagerström.