On the A330s and A340s, the crew sleeping places are in a kind of capsule under the cabin floor. By removing that, Lufthansa can take more cargo on longhaul flights. That is a lucrative exercise, since air freight prices are relatively high due to the corona crisis.
At the same time, there is still plenty of room in the cabin, because there are usually relatively few passengers on board due to all the travel restrictions. According to Lufthansa, the cabin crew can therefore lie horizontally on a few Economy Class seats to rest.
Many cabin crew members do not like this. Not only is such an improvised Economy sleeping place less comfortable, but there is also less privacy, employees must then continue to wear a mouth cap while sleeping and they also run a higher risk of being infected.
Union UFO is even a petition started. That seems to have helped a bit, because Lufthansa announced on Friday that the mobile crew rests will be kept on the flights to India, Aerotelegraph reports. In India, the Delta variant causes many infections.
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