Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has so far cancelled 133 flights this week, because of high jet fuel prices and the war in the Middle East. Both passengers and pilots are unhappy, and some analysts suspect profits over people.
Passengers affected by the cancellations of mostly domestic traffic in Norway were being re-booked on alternative departures and SAS apologized for the inconvenience. Flights from Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and Trondheim were among the most affected, along with some flights between Norwegian airports and Copenhagen, Århus and Aalborg in Denmark, Aberdeen in Scotland and Stockholm.
Rival Norwegian Air has not cancelled any flights and had no plans to do so. That prompted Professor Frode Steen at Norwegian business school NHH to speculate that the financial situation at SAS, which recently emerged from bankruptcy, was behind the cancellations.
SAS spokesman responded by telling state broadcaster NRK that “given the ongoing situation in the Middle East, including the strong and rapid incrase in global fuel prices, we are taking steps to strengthen our robustness.”
NewsinEnglish.no staff
