Moscow. 28 Nov. INTERFAX.RU – Lufthansa announced the cancellation of more than 1.7 thousand flights in the next two days due to pilots ‘ strike, which lasts for the second week. On Tuesday, there will be 816 flights of German air carrier of the planned 3 million, which will affect 82 thousand passengers. Wednesday will be canceled flight 890, which was to transport about 98 thousand people.
Lufthansa intends to obtain an injunction against the strike, to block protests. However, a similar move last week was not supported by the court, according to MarketWatch. The current conflict is the longest strike by pilots of Lufthansa.
the German Union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), representing the pilots of Lufthansa, announced the extension of the strike for the second consecutive week. On Monday, as expected, all flights will be on schedule. Negotiations with Lufthansa management about salary increase at the weekend deadlocked, so the pilots will continue to strike on Tuesday and Wednesday. As expected, November 29, the strike will impact mainly on domestic flights, 30 November – on all flights starting in Germany.
Lufthansa has said it is working on a special flight plans for Tuesday and Wednesday. The strike will not affect flights of subsidiary companies and partner transport, including flights Eurowings, Germanwings, Swiss International Air Lines, Austrian Airlines, Air Dolomiti and Brussels Airlines.
For the previous days of the strike, the carrier has cancelled 2,755 thousand flights, which affected 345 thousand passengers. Management estimates that the company pilots strike cost at 10 million euros a day. Lufthansa pilots complain that their wages did not grow for five years and require an increase by 3.6% for each year of freeze in the amount of more than 20%.
last Thursday the CEO Carsten Spohr said Lufthansa may cease to exist, if they fulfill the demands of the striking pilots Union Cockpit to raise salaries. Lufthansa pilots carried out for the 14th strike during the tariff dispute with the company, stretching two years. In 2014-2015, Lufthansa canceled 16 thousand flights due to strikes, losing on this EUR 463 million.
the Lufthansa Group in addition to the eponymous brand owned by Austrian Airlines, Swiss Airlines, Germanwings, Eurowings and share in Brussels Airlines and SunExpress Turkish. In 2015 they moved a record number of passengers 107.7 million people.
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