German cabin crew union to strike on all Lufthansa flights from Wednesday

Out of the approximately 3000 planned connections on Monday, about 929 continental and intercontinental flights were cancelled, which will affect approximately 113 000 passengers.

“Our guests need to take into account that their flight is canceled with Lufthansa until Friday”, Baublies said, according to German newspaper Der Spiegel.

“After a break in the walkouts on Sunday, work stoppages extended to Lufthansa’s hub at Munich airport on Monday in a dispute over retiremen” benefits and broader cost-cutting.

The union has held more than a dozen strikes over the last 18 months, but the last one was stopped when a court in Hesse ruled on September 9 that the pilots had overstepped their mandate by striking against strategic company decisions.

Lufthansa also agreed to pay for early retirement from the age of 55, instead of 56, as was previously proposed.

The walkouts began after Lufthansa and the cabin crew union failed to reach an agreement in a long-running dispute.

Lufthansa Group subsidiaries Germanwings, Eurowings, Lufthansa CityLine, Swiss worldwide Air Lines, Austrian Airlines, Air Dolomiti and Brussels Airlines are not part of the strike action.

“Employees seem to be angry, and the union seems well-organized, making it very hard for Lufthansa to mitigate the strike impact”, Jochen Rothenbacher, a Frankfurt-based analyst at Equinet AG, said by phone.

It’s going to change over three times as several flights as a nine-hour walkout last Friday, and almost the 520 cancelled on Saturday.

The action, in its third day, is expected to last a week, becoming the longest in Lufthansa’s history as both sides fail to agree on cost cuts.

UFO responded by saying its leadership would examine the new offer but added that “it changes nothing regarding the strike for November 10”. UFO representatives noted Tues.in that the airline just lately increased its pre-tax earnings forecast for the yr. …