Thousands of passengers were annoyed on Wednesday to change their travel plans. The Lufthansa had 140 connections to and from Munich deleted after the fourth strike now call the union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC). After the strike end at 18.00 clock she wanted to get back to normal operation. But the special flight plan called for the perturbed orbits for the evening and Thursday morning still more flight cancellations before.
Europe’s largest airline expected because of the terminated after eight hours Ausstands with a renewed million damage. The pilots fighting for their transition pension they receive in retirement. Of the strike more than 15,000 passengers
More than 140 flights being canceled
were in the last week of the Bavarian school holidays affected on flights to and from Munich. According to Lufthansa but could “almost all “be transferred from them to the web or other airports. Only became clear on Wednesday morning that not only the first-mentioned 110, but had to be canceled more than 140 flights. The 15 planned intercontinental flights from Munich were however flown as announced by volunteer crews.
Since April, the VC has skipped in four waves of strikes at Lufthansa and its subsidiary German Wings around 4300 flights and jumbled the travel plans of more than 480 000 people . Nevertheless, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr had said on Tuesday: “.. Strikes access not as intended” In an interview with hr-info he pleads for legal measures to curb the frequency of strikes
Lufthansa wants in Next week, inform their approximately 5400 pilots concerned directly with further details of existing offering, which had been previously discussed with the social partners VC. The VC am informed, it said on Wednesday. “Public collective bargaining has never led to any result, because the music plays in detail,” commented VC spokesman Jörg Handwerg. He described the Munich of the strike as a success. Prerequisite for agreement remains that the future transitional care applies to retirement also for newly hired pilots. Then one could talk about the other details.
retirement age to 60 high set
According to the Lufthansa proposal set from 2014 pilots would have the means for an early transition into retirement save up itself. The company wants the earliest individual and the average age of the pilots set up at least 60 or 61 years. This corresponds to the standard of other European airlines.
“Our information policy to inform passengers at an early stage, has taken,” said a Lufthansa spokesman. Very few passengers had traveled to the airport without being informed of the strikes. The Lufthansa has approximately 8,000 customers informed via email or SMS on failures. For other airlines on Wednesday
1200 beds was normal operation.
rented in hotelsat Munich Hauptbahnhof remained from the very big rush. “We had more advanced features, some passengers had to stand, but in all directions, it was enough. We had to use no relief trains and also no one to leave the platform, “said a railway spokesman. There had been a total of significantly more passengers from Munich. They could be carried on the regular trains.
before and after the strike flights Lufthansa hoped to be able to handle about half of their scheduled for Wednesday European connections. Precaution were for the night on Thursday around 1200 beds in hotels and rented been provided in the transit area of 350 beds. By the early evening, but no passengers were airline says “stranded” in the Bavarian capital.
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