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Lufthansa pilots called to strike on Thu, Fri (March 12, 13)

Posted by (Schwerin) on

"The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union has called on more than 5,000 employees to strike this coming Thursday and Friday. In addition to flights departing from Germany operated by Lufthansa's core company, the strike will also affect ... for the first time, its regional subsidiary Lufthansa Cityline.

Last week, the union decided not to take strike action due to the tense situation in air traffic to the Middle East. Now, destinations in the Arab region are expressly excluded from the strikes—specifically these countries: Egypt, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Yemen, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates."

Source: https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/piloten-streik-lufthansa-100.html

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We received notice that our connection from Frankfurt to Paris will likely be affected. Lufthansa indicated that they will contact us tomorrow afternoon with information on whether our flight is cancelled and whether we have been rebooked, and when. As many reported after the February strike, Frankfurt is the predominant airport to be affected. We went ahead and booked cancellable train tickets just in case Lufthansa cannot get us to Paris until Saturday or Sunday.

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jasonindenver, train is what I would recommend. Good decision.

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Welcome, Henry at fotoeins.

Great website and photos by the way. If you need tips / recommendations for the Northern part of Germany, also Denmark and Norway, let me know.

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I am due to fly Business Class from Vancouver to Frankfurt with a connection to Dusseldorf> I am flying end of March. This will be the second time that LH has screwed up my plans. I just cancelled the flights and rebooked Vancouver Denver, Denver London, London Dusseldorf. Air Canada, United and Eurowings. I am flying on award miles so at least I have the option to cancel and rebook at no cost. Perhaps LH needs new leadership at the top, so they can work with the striking unions.

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I understand your concerns, yvr1.

Personally I think that the leadership is doing its job, defending higher cost base to enabling competitive prices. Lufthansa offers attractive loan and working conditions already. And the pensions for retired pilots and leading board staff is really high, and must be earned first.

Good luck.

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What you say may be true, and I appreciate what you have written. Perhaps you are correct, and maybe the solution is an arbitrator, don't know if that is allowed in Germany. I will see if there is a strike announcement for my day of travel, and if not I will rebook my original flights as one stop is better than two. Usually this close to departure BC seats are not usually available for award travel, especially when there is only one flight a day from YVR, but, looking at the United awards, it is wide open for the LH flights, I find that a bit strange.

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In some desperate cases mediators are used which are often elder statesmen and women.

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