Economy
Monday, September 29, 2014
Travelers must be set again to failures and delays in Lufthansa. The pilots’ union Cockpit strike on Tuesday the long haul flights at the Frankfurt hub. Reason is the deadlocked pay dispute with the airline.
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It is the fifth wave of strikes: Lufthansa pilots will go on strike on Tuesday in Frankfurt Germany’s largest airport. No long-haul flights will start as the pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) announced between 8 and 23 clock. Affected are flights with the Airbus A380 long-haul jets, Boeing B747, Airbus A330 and Airbus A340.
the background is the deadlocked pay 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,” the 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.
resorting to Jump?
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At the weekend had become known that the use of external Lufthansa pilots checked for reasons of economy on long journeys. A first attempt would airline CEO Carsten Spohr start from November 2015 at the new Affordable offshoot called Jump, reported the “mirror”. Machines of the type Airbus A340 would be awarded to the Swiss airline PrivateAir and leased back together with Swiss federal cockpit personnel. This fraction of a decades-old group tradition tourist destinations such as Las Vegas or Mauritius could be approached – and costs are saved
A Lufthansa spokeswoman said: “It is right that we alternate Bereederungsmöglichkeiten for our 14 Airbus A340. -300 Check. ” Further details can not be called.
VC spokesman Handwerg confirmed that the proposed step is not contrary to applicable collective agreements. However, customers could no longer rely on a Lufthansa cockpit actually were sitting Lufthansa pilots. That would be a novelty, Handwerg said. “We regret that so doing.”
Source: n-tv.de
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