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Norway (Oslo), Sweden (Arlanda), Denmark (Copenhagen)
Sector
Transportation / Storage 51 - Air transport 51.1 - Passenger air transport 51.10 - Passenger air transport
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 December 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
Airline company SAS Group is recruiting 500 cabin crew employees during 2016 to be stationed at Arlanda in Sweden (300 positions) but also in Copenhagen (100 positions) and in Oslo (100 positions). The company is expanding after 15 years of internal restructuring and job cuts and will launch a number of new long distance flights during 2016. The new long distance routes are part of the airline strategy to counterbalance losses on short term flights caused by the low-cost airlines' competition. SAS has recently recruited 150 employees in Ireland.
Sources
10 November 2015: Dagens Nyheter
3 December 2015: Scandinavian Traveler
Citation
Eurofound (2015), SAS, Business expansion in European Union, factsheet number 86027, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/86027.