Around 03.20 on Tuesday morning, the parties confirmed that they had decided on an agreement that extends over five and a half years.

The full content has not yet been published, but so far the following is known:

Duty of peace during the contract period 

The agreement between SAS and the pilot associations means that there is a peace obligation and that the pilots are not allowed to strike for the agreed five and a half years.

Should the pilots nevertheless go on strike again, the agreement will be terminated. 

Terminated pilots are re-employed 

During the corona pandemic, 560 SAS pilots were notified.

In a press release from SAS on July 19, they will now re-employ 450 pilots with "gradual escalation until 2024". 

"We are pleased that our dismissed colleagues are guaranteed their jobs back, in accordance with the agreed right of re-employment," the Swedish pilot association writes in its press release the same day.

The same collective agreement for all pilots 

With the new agreement, all pilots in SAS will be covered by the same collective agreement, which will thus also apply to the subsidiaries SAS Connect and SAS Link.

- All pilots now gather in a company with equal obligations and rights, says Jan Levi Skogvang, chairman of the Norwegian pilot association Parat, to SVT.

Skogvang says that this also means that there must be no competition between the various internal companies. 

Cost savings

According to the press release from SAS, the agreement includes cost savings that are in line with their transformation plan SAS Forward.

A plan that SAS hopes can take the company out of its difficult financial situation, according to CEO Anko van der Werff.  

- SAS needs to raise SEK 9.5 billion and a breakthrough is now that we have agreed on a key part (the pilots) in our organization, he says in Morgonstudion on 19 July. 

One of the cost savings is also that the pilots' salaries will be reduced slightly.  

- The pilots will reduce wages by 5 percent, but will have a wage development in line with inflation and developments in Scandinavia in the coming years, says Martin Lindgren, chairman of the SAS section at the Swedish Pilot Association to NRK.