LUFTHANSA CANCELS 300 FLIGHTS AS FLIGHT ATTENDANT STRIKE SPREADS
Berlin,Germany : Lufthansa flight attendants escalated their bitter pay dispute on Tuesday, going out on strike at three German airports — including the two biggest, Frankfurt and Munich — in a showdown with an airline determined to bring down costs.
Lufthansa scrapped around 300 flights Tuesday. Most of the cancelled services were on short- and medium-haul routes but about a third of intercontinental flights — including services to and from Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Beijing and Mexico City — were also axed.
The flight attendants' UFO union called on Berlin-based members to walk out for eight hours starting at 5 a.m. and their counterparts at Frankfurt, Germany's busiest airport and Lufthansa's main hub, to follow at 6 a.m.
UFO also planned to hit Germany's second-busiest airport, Munich, with an 11-hour walkout starting at 1 p.m.
The union opened its strike campaign last Friday with an eight-hour walkout in Frankfurt and warned of more to come if Lufthansa didn't give ground. It has given only a few hours' notice of where and when it plans to strike.
04/09/2012 : The Commercial Appeal.
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