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(Reuters) — German airline Lufthansa cancelled 1,450 flights after a pilots union called for a strike on Monday (October 20) and Tuesday, adding to travellers’ misery after millions were left stranded by a weekend-long train drivers’ stoppage. Lufthansa said late on Sunday more than 200,000 passengers and two thirds of its scheduled flights – short and mid-length services, mostly within Europe – would be affected by the strike. Both the pilots’ and train drivers’ strikes hit at […]
(Reuters) — Lufthansa cancelled some 3,800 flights as pilots began a three-day walkout on Wednesday (April 2), in what is one of the biggest strikes ever to hit the German airline. Vereinigung Cockpit, the union representing most of Lufthansa’s 5,400 pilots, last week said it was calling for a three-day strike from April 2 over plans by Germany’s largest airline to scrap an early retirement deal. Although Lufthansa had improved its offer, the pilots said […]
