The German airline Lufthansa hit by an ongoing pilotstrejk. On Tuesday and Wednesday are about 1,700 flights. Photo: Marcel Kusch/AP
the Strike is expected to affect 180 000 passengers. For the Swedish part is subject to a number of departures in from Stockholm and Gothenburg.
– in The case of ten departures from the airport and seven from Gatwick. It is the same number as last week, ” says Adam Ekman at flygplatsbolaget Swedavia’s press office, to TT.
– It is the answer we can leave right now. We await what Lufthansa says.
Pilotfackets strike, was launched in the middle of last week, has meant that 2 800 flights have already been cancelled, affecting around 350 000 passengers.
Pilotfacken Vereinigung Cockpit has so far refused to accept Lufthansa’s förhandlingsbud for wage increases. The tray requires a salary increase of 3.7 percent for the 5 400 pilots who would apply retroactively from 2012 – a bid that Lufthansa, in turn, rejects, reports Reuters.
Sunday, pilotfacket to short haul to be affected on Tuesday, to be extended to also apply to long-haul flights on Wednesday.
Lufthansa has in turn turned to a labor court in Munich in an attempt to stop the strike. Late on Monday, the court rejected the airline’s request.
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