Frankfurt / Main (dpa) – The stalled wage dispute at Lufthansa pilots want on Tuesday increase with a 15-hour strike on long-haul flights printing. Between 08.00 and 23.00 clock no long-range jets Lufthansa to Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt stand.
This was announced by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) to. Passengers must make again because now the fifth strike wave of pilots on flight delays and failures in focus.
The short and medium-haul traffic should not be affected, according to Lufthansa. Even long-haul flights from Munich and Dusseldorf will start. The flights of the other group companies such as Swiss, Austrian, German Wings, Brussels Airlines and Air Dolomiti could find also scheduled to take place.
Planning for a special flight plan had been started immediately. Threatened are on strike period 56 overseas flights, a spokesman said on demand. The special flight plan should be published in the course of the day on the Lufthansa website. The company informed affected customers also directly via SMS and email.
are affected flights with the Airbus A380 long-haul jets, Boeing B747, Airbus A330 and Airbus A340. Since the walkout of the pilots will continue until the end of operation of the airport, there can not be intentionally delayed start from Frankfurt because of the ban on night flights.
Two weeks ago it was the Lufthansa engineers have succeeded in one to eight hours also for Frankfurt announced long-range strike offer all the connections yet. The VC had canceled the walkout then and now again failed negotiations in the meantime been added.
background of strikes is the labor dispute to supply around 5400 Lufthansa pilots during the transition to retirement. “Since the Lufthansa management has continued submitted no compromise competitive offer, we are forced to these other measures,” VC said. But it was still anytime association ready to avert strikes. The VC has skipped 4300 flights already in four waves of strikes, hundreds of thousands of travelers were affected.
The conflict between management and pilots union escalated elsewhere. So the company is investigating the use of external pilots on long-haul flights under the brand Lufthansa. Under the project name “Jump” Lufthansa had demanded, inter alia, by the unions cost concessions in order to cost-effectively with pared-service offering without first class to more tourist can fly. The VC should not, according to Lufthansa have agreed to savings, which is contested by the union.
VC spokesman Jörg Handwerg confirmed the Lufthansa-assessment that the proposed step is not contrary to applicable collective agreements. However, customers could no longer rely on that in a Lufthansa cockpit actually were sitting Lufthansa pilots then. That would be a novelty, Handwerg said. “We regret that so doing.”
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issued on 29/09/2014 at 12:55 clock
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