Originally Posted by GUWonder

What exactly is whose story?

Perhaps the striking pilots weren’t strategic enough. They seemed more eager to try to fly back the stranded passengers than to try for or wait for SAS management to work together quickly with them on writing down a flight by flight agreement about what routes to fly and not fly.

It should have been obvious to the striking pilots union that even any temporary, one-off capacity they would provide — for whatever purpose — may ease the pressure on SAS management to use non-striking pilots to get the stranded passengers back. Those stranded passengers cost SAS by the day too — or so they may to whatever extent SAS doesn’t manage to also get those liabilities wiped out via the US Chapter 11 bankruptcy scheme.