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Tuesday, 09 September 2014
The labor dispute at Germany’s biggest airline goes into the next round. Lufthansa pilots continue their strike action. This time, the Munich Airport’s turn. Travelers have to adapt to significant disability.
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Shortly before the end of the school holidays in Bavaria, the pilots of Lufthansa put on a new strike date is set: The union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) calls on its members for this Wednesday to work stoppages in the second largest Lufthansa’s hub in Munich
“The Lufthansa pilots are on September 10, 2014 in the period of 10.00 – 18.00 resign clock work and no departures from Munich Airport to perform more”, said the pilots’ union. “With this strike a new collective agreement transitional care is to be achieved.”
On the stock market, the strike announcement was not well received: The Lufthansa share lost in the first reactions up to 1.4 percent and had thus the largest losing in the DAX benchmark index. The group criticized the union vigorously for the recent strikes. It again meet passengers on the way home, this time in Bavaria, a spokesman said.
The Bavarian school holidays end early next week. The company now examine the impact of the walkout will have on the flight plan. Currently the Group could not say to what cancellations may occur.
The pilots were entered last last Friday at Frankfurt airport for six hours in the strike. The result is that Lufthansa had to cancel 218 flights, 26,000 passengers were affected by the walkout. Since the Lufthansa management had been submitted “no compromise competitive offer,” the pilot will see claims to be “forced to these other measures.”
long haul flights affected
So far, Lufthansa had and their daughter also bestreikte German Wings with special schedules on the date three strikes reacts since April. Industry experts believe that even for the now announced for Munich pilot strike is already a Notflugplan in the drawer. In the German air travel is still expected delays and flight cancellations. The Lufthansa informed travelers including on its website about upcoming impairments.
The impact is likely to unsettle not only the Lufthansa Fluplan in Munich, as with the strike at Germany’s second largest airport for the first time also the most lucrative for the company long-haul flights are affected. With the strike about the 5400 Lufthansa pilots want to give emphasis in the hardened labor dispute in calling for maintaining an in-house early retirement.
In the Vereinigung Cockpit it was about being “ready anytime association”. By an offer of the Management of strike could be averted even at short notice. “We regret any inconvenience to the customers of Lufthansa,” informed the union.
rights for new and old pilots
background of the dispute between the company management and pilots is the long-simmering labor dispute at Europe’s largest aviation group. In essence, it is about the transitional care, yet received the Lufthansa pilots in their early retirement. On average, Lufthansa captains go currently with nearly 59 years in the paid by the company early retirement.
More on the topicThe Lufthansa pilots want to keep the in-house early retirement. So far, the pilots could place no earlier than age 55, the control out of the hands – on average they start with 59 years in retirement. The Lufthansa keeps the control in the long term for priceless and will increase the average being 61 years. Seen
observer in the strike action but also a power struggle between pilots and top management, the face of increasing competition from budget airlines with plans for themselves own low-budget provider carries.
A deal is not in sight. The Lufthansa had the collective agreement terminated end of last year. Your full force last had demonstrated the pilots’ union, however in April. At that time they had the Lufthansa with a strike for three days as good as paralyzed: 3800 flights were canceled out, many of the lucrative long-distance connections. The decrease in profits for Lufthansa amounted at that time to a total of 60 million euros.
Source: n-tv.de
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