Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Rates: Pilot strikes hit thousands Lufthansa customers – ABC Online

Rates: Pilot strikes hit thousands Lufthansa customers – ABC Online

Wednesday , 10.09.2014, 20:51
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The labor dispute Lufthansa pilots has again forced thousands of passengers on Wednesday to change their travel plans. After the fourth strike now call the union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), Europe’s largest airline had 140 connections to and from Munich deleted. The pilots fighting for their transition pension they receive in retirement.

The strike at Germany’s second largest airport had gone at 18.00 clock after eight hours in total to end. Around 15,000 passengers were affected. With volunteer pilots However, Lufthansa had to retain the 15 intercontinental connections to its Munich hub.

After the strike end in the evening, the flight operations returned to normal relatively quickly, according to Lufthansa and Munich Airport. Also, no passengers were stranded, who had to take the night the precaution booked hotel rooms in claim.

Lufthansa will inform in the wage dispute in the coming week its about 5400 pilots concerned directly with further details of the existing range, the had been previously discussed with the social partners VC. The VC am informed, it said. Because of the strike, Lufthansa expected a renewed million damage.

Since April, the VC has skipped in four waves of strikes at Lufthansa and its subsidiary German Wings around 4300 flights and upset the travel plans of over 480,000 people. Nevertheless, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr had said on Tuesday: “The strikes do not attack as intended.” In an interview with hr-info he pleads for legal measures to curb the frequency of strikes

“Public collective bargaining. have 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 you could talk about the other details.

According to the proposal, the Lufthansa-set from 2014 pilots would have the means for an early transition into retirement save up itself. The company wants the earliest possible 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 have taught some 8,000 customers via email or SMS on failures. For other airlines on Wednesday was normal operation.

at 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.

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