Passengers can breathe easy: Cockpit pilots’ strike blows from – n-tv.de NEWS

Passengers can breathe easy: Cockpit pilots' strike blows from – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Monday, September 15, 2014

 
 
 

 
 Surprising turn in the labor dispute Lufthansa: The pilots say the planned strike in Frankfurt on short notice. Previously, the company had announced: None of the flights concerned fails. The pilots give now willing to negotiate.
 

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The passengers of Lufthansa spared another day of the strike. The pilots’ union Cockpit (VC) said on Monday evening from surprising scheduled for this Tuesday stoppage of work. Cockpit justified this by saying they Peile new talks with the airline to. The Lufthansa management had sent the union changed conditions for early retirement of pilots. The Tariff Commission of the pilots’ union had then offered new appointments yet for this week.

The Lufthansa wanted the originally announced work stoppage, which should take long-haul flights 9-17 clock run, into the void and offer all 40 compounds. Lufthansa had already been used in previous strike days management pilots and volunteers undisclosed number.

VC spokesman Jörg Handwerg said that Lufthansa had presented a “modified offer”. This was “debatable”. The Vereinigung Cockpit is ready anytime association. “Whether it is possible to avert the industrial action permanently, is not yet in sight,” the VC said. Cockpit spokesman Handwerg said the union had been clear that Lufthansa could have held the danger of failure long-haul flights with other pilots. A Lufthansa spokesman said in the evening, the airline currently advise the new location. The airline passengers had already been informed about changed departure times to be on strike.

The Lufthansa had substantiated its offer to the pilots’ union on Monday noon. They presented complex calculations, according to which the individual pilots could take early retirement. Of their basic demands for a later individual entry (60 instead of 55) and an increase in the average retirement age (from 58 to 61), Lufthansa departed not loud but its Communication. The company attributed the unusual approach thus trying to inform the pilots directly on the plans.

VC The pilots’ union wants to further intragroup low cost airlines

the transitional care on the present state maintained. Currently, approximately 5400 pilots and co-pilots go on average with nearly 59 years in the paid by the company early retirement – that is, six years before reaching the statutory retirement age. One can even change from 55 to early retirement. Background of the dispute is the negative attitude of the VC against further intragroup low cost airlines in the so-called “Wings family.”

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In a similar conflict laid on Monday the pilots of Air France stopped work, which also led to flight cancellations in the direction of Germany. French unions have announced strikes intensified mid-week.

It was only last Wednesday had the Vereinigung Cockpit strike the second largest after Frankfurt hub of Lufthansa in Munich and skipped 140 European flights. Since April, the VC has skipped around 4300 flights in four waves of strikes at Lufthansa and its subsidiary German Wings, upset the travel plans of over 480,000 people and the companies added millions of losses.

  Source: n-tv.de