By Reuters Staff3 Min ReadSTOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Ailing airline SAS and pilot unions continued talks over new collective agreements on Sunday after negotiations by means of the night time, a union consultant instructed reporters because the strike entered its 14th day.FILE PHOTO: SAS airplanes are parked on the Oslo Airport Gardermoen, as Scandinavian airways (SAS) pilots go on strike, Norway July 4, 2022. Beate Oma Dahle/NTB by way of REUTERS Most SAS pilots in Sweden, Denmark and Norway walked out on July 4 after talks over situations associated to the Scandinavian service’s rescue plan collapsed. The events returned to the negotiating desk within the Swedish capital on Wednesday.“We have been at it tonight and we continue,” Norwegian pilot union consultant Roger Klokset mentioned whereas on a break.Klokset mentioned events might have come nearer to a deal in a single day.“Maybe. But I don’t know whether there will be an agreement yet,” he mentioned.SAS, the primary house owners of that are Sweden and Denmark, has been struggling to compete with low-cost competitors for years earlier than the pandemic slammed the trade. It wants to draw new traders and safe bridge financing, saying that it should first slash prices to realize these aims.Pilots employed within the 75-year-old service’s SAS Scandinavia subsidiary final week mentioned they’d conform to restricted wage cuts and fewer beneficial phrases, however SAS mentioned that concessions supplied weren’t sufficient for it to hold out a rescue plan introduced in February.Unions additionally demand that pilots axed in the course of the pandemic are rehired at SAS Scandinavia quite than having to compete with exterior candidates for jobs on much less enticing phrases at just lately created SAS Link and Ireland-based SAS Connect.On Saturday a mediator mentioned the events had made progress, however vital points had but to be resolved.The airline mentioned on Thursday that the strike had brought about 2,550 flight cancellations, affecting 270,000 passengers and costing it between $94 million and $123 million. The Swedish authorities has mentioned it is going to present no additional cash.For Sunday, 164 SAS flights, or 62% of these scheduled, have been cancelled, in accordance with flight-tracking platform FlightAware. Pilots at SAS Link and SAS Connect will not be on strike.Reporting by Anna Ringstrom; Editing by David GoodmanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.