Saturday, September 1, 2012

Lufthansa flight attendants commence strike action

Lufthansa (LH) has offered to restart negotiations with the UFO union after the first day of strikes by the carrier’s flight attendants.

During Friday’s eight-hour strike, LH had to cancel 200 out of 360 flights at Frankfurt Airport (FRA). Some long-haul flights were not able to operate and FRA could not give landing clearance for arriving aircraft from domestic European destinations for about 90 minutes due to a lack of parking positions.

Munich has reported 15 LH flight cancellations. Dusseldorf reported one cancellation; Berlin Tegel, three; and Stuttgart, one.

UFO, which represents 18,000 LH flight attendants, rejected the carrier’s latest pay offer earlier this week and announced it was set to strike on short notice at selected airports.

(Kurt Hofmann - ATWOnline News)

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