Paris (APA / Reuters) – Lufthansa contact the pilots of Air France on strike. The French tradition of strokes because of Ausstands on Monday, more than half of all flights. Only 40 percent of the planned connections would take place, Air France said. On Monday, six flights to and from Vienna could fall victim to the strike.
Due to the number of pilots who wanted to strike on Monday, remained 60 percent of flights at the bottom. The passengers would be informed and asked to rebook, CEO Frederic Gagey said Saturday French radio.
The walkout of the airline pilots can cost ten to 15 million euros daily. The pilots threaten the dispute over austerity measures so that, for a whole week not to get into the cockpit. Air France-KLM wants – as well as rival Lufthansa – recapture with an expansion of the low supply market share. The pilots of the German airline went on strike in the past two weeks, three times, most recently on Wednesday in Munich. The pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit threatened with further walkouts.
Air France and Lufthansa are from low-cost rivals such as Ryanair and Easyjet as well as the rapidly growing Arab airlines such as Emirates and Air Berlin Partner, Etihad under pressure placed. The austerity measures at Air France provides a powerful union in the way. It requires, inter alia, for the pilots of the airline subsidiary Transavia same contracts as at Air France. There, some 4,700 pilots are employed. In Germany, the union gives the strike wave their demand for maintaining an in-house early retirement for the 5400 Lufthansa pilots emphasis.
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