STRIKE FORCES LUFTHANSA TO AXE 1,000 FLIGHTS
Frankfurt,Germany : Germany’s national carrier Lufthansa cancelled 1,000 flights on Friday following a 24 hour strike by cabin crew.Unions called the walkout after management refused to meet demands for a five per cent pay raise.
But both sides have already agreed to return to the negotiating table.Lufthansa customers in Frankfurt Airport criticised the airline’s handling of the strike.
“We were not informed at all by Lufthansa whether our flight is flying or not, I got that information only from the internet,” said one young woman waiting in the departure lounge.
A male passenger described the strike as “maybe understandable” because of the airline’s use of “cheap contract workers”.“But the fact that it came to such an extreme is not great,” he said.
07/09/2012 : Euro News.
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