Feb 19, 2024 at 10:51 PM Update: an hour ago
Lufthansa ground crews started a second strike on Monday evening, which could affect more than 100,000 passengers. The first flights have already been cancelled.
The German airline expects that hundreds of flights will have to be canceled. The strike is expected to last just over a day. Lufthansa plans to operate 10 to 20 percent of its planned schedule of about a thousand flights on Tuesday.
According to a Schiphol spokesperson, flights to Frankfurt and Munich were canceled on Tuesday. She could not say the specific cause of this. It is not yet known whether the strike will also have consequences for KLM. “I have not heard that it has an impact at KLM,” says a spokesperson.
During the first strike almost two weeks ago, approximately nine hundred flights were canceled and more than 100,000 passengers had to reschedule.
The German trade union Verdi called on ground staff to strike again. According to the union, employees from the technology, logistics, freight and IT departments are leaving work. Ground staff in Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart will also go on strike.
With the actions, the union wants to enforce better working conditions for the staff. Negotiations with the employer recently failed to reach an agreement again. In addition to a significant wage increase, the union also demanded an additional premium to compensate for the high inflation for Lufthansa’s approximately 25,000 ground employees.
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