Cockpit announces Lufthansa strike for Friday onwards – Berliner Kurier

Also on Friday, Lufthansa will strike again
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Frankfurt / Main –

In the Lufthansa pilot strike go on Thursday and now also on Friday next.

After Wednesday around 750 compounds of short- and medium-haul had failed, like the pilots union Cockpit this Thursday exclusively on strike long haul flights. On Friday evening, the union announced further strikes – then short- and medium-haul flights Lufthansa would strike. Flights Lufthansa subsidiaries German Wings and Euro Wings would not be affected, it said in the statement.

According to Lufthansa can on Thursday despite the strike, but 43 of the planned 85 intercontinental flights from Germany to start. When also on strike freight subsidiary Lufthansa Cargo should lean not a single flight.

Already on Wednesday, the pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit had strike the short- and medium-haul traffic. Around 80 000 passengers were affected by the delays and failures. At the airports in Frankfurt and Munich hubs of Lufthansa, it was said that it was all gone quiet.

The tariff talks falter

The reason for the meantime twelfth round of strikes is the new failure of collective negotiations between Lufthansa and the Vereinigung Cockpit , The main bone of contention concerns the transitional provision until retirement of 5,400 pilots who are paid by the Group collective agreement.

The union sees their demands are not met, and demands that future pilots benefit from company-financed early retirement.

“It’s not about preventing strategic business decisions, but the design of the tariff conditions of the pilots, “said Cockpit spokesman Joerg Handwerg in the statement released on Wednesday night. “He who sees every collective agreement as a limitation of entrepreneurial freedom, subject to a misunderstanding that makes signing new agreements de facto impossible.”

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