 On 24 April 2002 , SAS announced that all handling services operated by Braathens would be taken over by SAS Ground Services . All SAS employees would be prioritized in the rationalization process , and 800 Braathens employees were laid off . Three hundred Braathens ' employees were offered jobs with SAS Ground Services , but these lost their seniority . No employees in SAS lost their jobs . The case ended in the courts , where 369 former Braathens employees sued SAS to receive the same seniority as they had in Braathens . On 15 October 2003 , Asker and Bærum District Court decided that only 42 of the employees , those working in Kristiansund and Molde , had right to keep their seniority . The case was appealed , and on 18 March 2005 , Borgarting Court of Appeal , with four against three votes , decided in favor of SAS , denying the employees their claim . The matter was not settled until 31 January 2006 , when the Supreme Court of Norway ruled in favor of the employees . 
