Scandinavian airline SAS on Tuesday announced plans to lay off up to 40 percent of its workforce in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
Scandinavian airline SAS said on Tuesday it would reduce its workforce by up to 5,000 full-time positions, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on air travel.
The airline, which furloughed around 90 percent of its staff in mid-March, said the potential layoffs would affect up to 1,900 full-time positions in Sweden, 1,300 in Norway and 1,700 in Denmark. It said it would negotiate solutions with unions and stakeholders in the hope of reducing the number of actual layoffs.
SAS has temporarily laid off almost all of its staff since the coronavirus brought international travel to a near complete standstill in March, while domestic travel has also been severely impacted.
