SAS reports 32% drop in July traffic

Bloomberg

SAS AB reported a 32% plunge in passenger traffic last month, revealing the impact a strike had on troubled Scandinavian airline and its customers.
The total number of passengers fell to 1.3 million in July from 1.9 million a month earlier, the Stockholm-based
carrier said in a statement.
Capacity falls 23% in July as the 15-day strike among 1,000 pilots canceled 3,700 flights and affected 380,000 passengers. The labour dispute, which happened at the busiest time of the year for SAS, cost the airline as much as 130 million Swedish kronor ($12.8 million) a day in lost revenue and costs.
“We sincerely apologise to our customers who were affected by the July strike,” CEO Anko van der Werff said in the statement. “We are happy operations returned to normality again allowing us to start regaining our customers’ trust.”