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SAS cancels flights as strike takes off

Danish cabin crews at  Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) walked off the job in a wildcat strike today, causing major flight disruptions.

This afternoon the airline had cancelled 62 European flights in and  out of Copenhagen.

'Further cancellations are expected,' SAS spokesman Jens  Langergaard said.

In March 2007, SAS was hit with a similar strike after the  airline failed to reach a collective agreement with the 1,600-member  Cabin Attendants Union.

According to cabin crew spokesman Niels Henrik Madsen, flight  attendants are dissatisfied with their collective agreement being  included in a private sector agreement.

'We are not interested in higher salaries but call for better  working conditions. Our company is the European company with the  lowest number of crew on flights,' Madsen told Danish news agency Ritzau.