Norwegian offers four daily pays to pilots for purchasing the holidays their – Dagbladet.no

Over a thousand passengers were yesterday struck after 18 flights with budget airline Norwegian was canceled at short notice.

The cancellations were due partly to lack of crew, and came after one overtime agreement between the airlines and pilots outlet. The contract covers the purchase and sale of holidays, an agreement that Norwegian many years use.

The agreement means that the company buys holidays as pilots basically have, in exchange for being overtime paid. It has proven to be very profitable for pilots, because over time apply regardless of how little or how much you work during the day off selling.

Have been offered double overtime

to hedge against new cancellations Norwegian has chosen to send out an email with a lucrative offer to its pilots to buy them out of the holidays.

SENT OUT THIS MAIL: Norwegian offers double overtime for pilots who sell the holidays their in period 4 .-7. July. Photo: Facsimile more

In the email it says

“Good evening all together

Please be aware that management has approved a top offer to provide double overtime to anyone who can help us out of this tough period.

Thanks in advance “

Norwegian confirmed to Dagbladet that they have given the pilots offered double overtime to redeem them from the holidays his.

– It is true that we have offered double overtime to pilots. We have stretched us very far in order to entice them to fly, says Charlotte Holmbergh Jacobsson, press officer of Norwegian.

– have you given this offer to all pilots?

– all pilots flying short-haul routes has been offered to sell the holidays their in exchange for double overtime, she says .

Jacobsson did not detail how much pilots will be paid with over time, other than that she thinks it is very profitable for pilots who accepts.

– the main thing for us is that our passengers get off place. Our customers are very important to us and we are willing to make enormous microns for them to come forward.

– Very much money

Halvor Vatnar is the head of the pilot union as organizes the Scandinavian pilots in Norwegian. He has himself not gotten the message about the extra money.

NOT GOT OFFER TO OVERTIME: Halvor Vatnar leader union for pilots in Norwegian. He has not received the mail with offers of overtime. Photo: Jon Olav Nesvold / NTB scanpix more

– If the offering to pay double of double payment, the four daily salary, which is very much money. This is the a very good evidence that Norwegian has too little pilots to make planned production: That they actually planning regular operations with overtime instead of hiring sufficient numbers of pilots, says she explains.

he flew yesterday roundtrip Oslo-Malaga, and shall see the last European Championship quarterfinals before he must to bed – for another long flydag today.

– Pilots working about 60 hours a week and flying 12 to 13 hour sessions. If we then work extra off days, the pilots full of fatigue, he said.

Vatnar has asked Norwegian’s protection service to obtain documentation on employee absenteeism in recent days.

– there are rumors that there are sick campaigns and other campaigns at once, but it is something I do not know. Such accusations make me angry, he said.

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