SAS Group is expecting to appeal an Oslo court’s imposition of a NKr132 million ($26.3 million) fine on the company, for obtaining sensitive data on rival airline Norwegian by accessing its reservation system.

The court has also ruled that SAS Group and its Norwegian division SAS Norge must pay costs amounting to NKr6.8 million.

SAS Group says it intends to examine the judgement once it has dealt with immediate operational problems arising from an airport workers’ strike in Norway.

“We will review the terms of the judgement when Norwegian aviation has returned to normal,” says SAS Norge president Ola Strand. “But it is highly probable that we will appeal this judgement.”

Norwegian brought the case against SAS Norge two years ago.

It centres on an agreement forged between the airlines during their earlier in

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