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passengers the airline German Wings should expect two days because of a pilot strike with problems. The Cockpit union called on its members for Thursday and Friday for recusal. According to the airline still to take place more than 60 percent of all flights. “80 percent of the passengers reach their destination,” a company spokesman said early Thursday morning.
For both strike days a total of 900 flights were planned. Now on Thursday to more than 160 flights are canceled, on Friday, many compounds are similarly deleted.
The walkout is especially true with Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Stuttgart. In Frankfurt and Munich, however, hardly disabilities are expected because German Wings these hubs rarely flies.
The spokesman for the airline advised passengers to check online whether their connection fails. Individuals may cancel or rebook your flight free of charge. With the help of the web and transfers to other airlines are according to the company about 80 percent of the more than 70,000 guests achieve their goals.
The pilots of Lufthansa subsidiary German Wings want to stop work because of a collective dispute to Friday Evening , The dispute among others on the transitional supply of pilots before retirement. There are, however, fundamental differences of opinion on the future course of Lufthansa.
The Cockpit union had called last year for the companies Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo and German Wings to a total of ten strikes only once she said the industrial action short from. The Company estimated the damage at approximately 200 million euros, around 7400 flights were canceled from 850 000 passengers were affected.
What passengers can do right now, click here. (AP)
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