mobanmarketBerlin: Cabin crew at Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s Germanwings unit began a three-day strike Monday that will affect around 180 mostly domestic Eurowings flights out of about 1,200 scheduled during the New Year period.
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The latest industrial action affecting Lufthansa underscores fragile relations between Europe’s biggest airline group and labor representatives as the company fights a continent-wide capacity war with low-cost carriers.
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The UFO union called the action at Germanwings last week after failing to settle a long-running labor dispute with Lufthansa. Further strike action may be announced after Jan. 2, the union said.
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Germanwings operates 30 of the approximately 140 aircraft at Lufthansa’s Eurowings unit and Eurowings said it “will continue to do everything possible to minimize the impact.”
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“This strike is unfounded and incomprehensible to us,” it said on its website. “We are doing everything to offer our passengers a normal flight schedule between Christmas and New Year.”
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The dispute between Lufthansa and its cabin crew has been going on for several months. The parties hammered out a deal on pay this month, but failed to reach an agreement on working conditions. Cabin-crew members held strikes in November, leading to the cancellation of about 1,300 flights.
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