Lufthansa faces week-long strike by cabin crew
Lufthansa cabin crew are threatening a week-long strike from Friday if the airline does not meet a new set of demands.
Flight attendants’ union UFO on Monday said it would call for a walkout from November 6-13 if it did not get what it wanted on retirement and pension benefits, reports Reuters.
The German airline has until Thursday at 4pm to respond.
But Lufthansa said its retirement benefits for its flight attendants were already industry-leading in Germany.
There have been a series of walkouts since April 2014 in the continued dispute over early retirement benefits and Lufthansa’s plans to expand its budget operations.
Today’s strike threat came after Lufthansa announced new long haul routes for it low cost subsidiary, Eurowings in 2016..
Karl Ulrich Garnadt, Lufthansa’s head of low-cost operations, said Eurowings would serve Las Vegas, Miami and Muscat from next year, reports Bloomberg.
The first of six long-distance Eurowings routes to run this winter took off today for Cuba. Flights to Punta Cana and Puerto Plata both begin on November 7 while flights to Phuket and Dubai depart on December 18 for the first time and for Bangkok on December 20.
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