Published 21 May 2021 at 11.50
Consumer. The airline SAS is forced to pay 250 euros, equivalent to about 2,500 kronor, in damages to a man who was affected by the pilot strike in the spring of 2019. Attunda District Court announces this today.
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The man was to fly from Malmö to Stockholm on April 29, but was informed shortly before departure that the flight was canceled due to the pilot strike that had been going on for three days.
SAS claimed that the strike was an “extraordinary circumstance”, thus rejecting the man's and other travelers' claims for canceled flights due to the strike.
In March this year, however, the European Court of Justice announced that the strike could not be considered a exemption from compensation “extraordinary circumstance”, a ruling that Swedish courts have awaited in order to be able to decide how to proceed with the cases.
Therefore, the man is now right, and SAS is sentenced to pay damages to him. A total of 380,000 passengers were affected by the SAS pilot strike in 2019 and more passengers may now receive compensation for it.