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Lufthansa has canceled greater than 1,300 flights scheduled for Friday after the Verdi labor union referred to as for full-day strikes involving airport staff at seven German airports, together with Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg.
Lufthansa, one in all Europe’s largest airways, was ceasing all flight operations at Frankfurt and Munich for Friday, it mentioned in a press release on its web site on Thursday.
“We remorse the large influence of this warning strike, which is being carried out on the expense of our passengers,” Michael Niggemann, a member of the Lufthansa govt board, mentioned within the assertion. “We’re not a celebration to the collective bargaining and haven’t any affect on it — however, our friends and we’re massively affected.”
In complete, 2,340 flights have been canceled at affected airways, disrupting journeys for greater than 295,000 passengers, in accordance with Germany’s airport affiliation ADV.
Lufthansa is providing various connections and rebooking on rail companies “the place attainable”, the airline mentioned. It expects common flight operations to be “largely again to regular” on Saturday, February 18.
General, greater than 295,000 passengers have been affected throughout Germany, in accordance with the airport affiliation ADV.
The disruption comes solely two days after a company-wide IT outage at Lufthansa led to a raft of flight cancellations and delays that stranded hundreds of passengers in airports on Wednesday.
The Verdi union is demanding a increase of 10.5% for its members. Inflation stoked by excessive vitality and meals costs is consuming into wages.
