Alt klart for asiatisk crew på SAS

[CK]

Se opp for indiske crew på DEL...

All clear for Asian crew on SAS

The Danish Parliament, Folketinget, has voted for a change in legislation, which allows SAS to employ Asian crew. Folketinget today accepted the new law that was proposed last week, which allows airlines to employ overseas crew on flights five hours or longer.

This gives SAS the right, under certain conditions, to use local-based crew in China and Japan on flights, without holding Danish work permits.

"We are pleased with the outcome and the fact that there now is a pragmatic political solution in place. We are also pleased that the Danish government understands our need to have a small number of local crew onboard in order for us to provide a service that meets our non-Scandinavian passengers' demands. This applies to selected routes where cultural and language differences require a local touch," says Lars Sandahl Sørensen, CEO, SAS International.

For SAS it is important to be able to compete with the number of European airlines that employ Asian crew based in Asia.

The new law will come into effect July 1 and will be followed by an administrative regulation stipulating certain requirements on SAS, including that 15% of overseas crew's working time is paid according to Danish salary regulations.

On Copenhagen-Beijing and Copenhagen-Tokyo flights, two out of 10 crew are Asian based, which already meets the new law's requirement that a maximum 20% of cabin crew can be based overseas.

SAS International was forced to suspend its Chinese-based cabin crew on its Copenhagen-Beijing flights April 9 this year, as they did not hold Danish work permits. We and many of our customers look forward on welcoming our Chinese crew back onboard again in the very near future

[OJB]

Det var på tide de tok til vettet for å bidra til å berge selskapets anseelse i markedet.

[CK]

og, det skal bli godt for de kinesiske c/a'ene å få lov til å komme op å fly igjen.