SAS struck by strike cancels 1,200 additional flights Monday and Tuesday

The Scandinavian airline SAS has canceled more than 1,200 flights scheduled Monday and Tuesday, while the pilot strike continues and affects tens of thousands of trained travelers Sunday.

Seventy percent of the airline's flights were stalled Friday after the failure of wage negotiations.

Since then, some 170,000 pbadengers have been affected.

"Due to the ongoing conflict, further cancellations are ongoing Monday and Tuesday," the airline said in a statement released on Sunday.

"The strike will affect an additional 61,000 pbadengers on Monday, when 667 flights will be canceled across Scandinavia, with 49,000 pbadengers and 546 departures on Tuesday."

SAS has taken action, including providing free food to pbadengers waiting for alternate flights at airports. The carrier, which is partly owned by the Swedish and Danish governments, said it was ready to resume negotiations but warned that responding to pilots' demands would have disastrous consequences for the company.

Swedish employers in the aviation sector said the pilots were demanding a 13% increase in wages, despite salaries already above the average of about 8,700 euros a month.

The SAS Pilot Group, a trade union representing 95% of the company's pilots in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, says the conflict is not only about salaries, but that it requires more predictable hours of work and transparent.