STOCKHOLM/OSLO (Reuters) – Scandinavian airline SAS canceled hundreds of flights scheduled for Sunday as a pilot strike entered its second day, disrupting the travel plans of tens of thousands of passengers.

SAS pilots went on strike on Friday as wage talks broke down, grounding around 70 percent of the airline’s flights and hitting some 170,000 people over the weekend alone.

“We deeply regret that our customers are affected by the ongoing pilot strike,” SAS said in a statement on Saturday outlining its flight cancellations for the rest of the weekend.

“Due to the strike another estimated 64,000 passengers will be affected (on Sunday) when 587 flights are canceled across Scandinavia.”

The stand-off showed little sign of nearing a resolution on Saturday.

“We believe the unions have to face reality and resume talks,” Torbjoern Lothe at the Norwegian Confederation of Enterprise, an employers’ association involved in the negotiations with the unions last week, told Reuters.

Norsk Pilotforbund, one of two SAS pilot unions in Norway, said it had had no contact with the airline, as did Rawaz Nermany, chairman of the Swedish Airline Pilots Association.

Reuters

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