Strike at Lufthansa in Germany, AUA uses larger planes

“That’s completely inappropriate,” criticized ADV managing director Ralph Beisel. He accused the flight attendant union UFO of “deliberately accepting maximum disruption here.”

Up until Friday 5 p.m. alone around 200 departures from Frankfurt Airport was canceled, according to data from the website of the airport operator Fraport on Thursday. The airline explained that there would be disruptions to the flight schedule.

There will also be a strike on “all Lufthansa CityLine departures from Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Bremen, Stuttgart, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Hanover airports,” as the union announced.

The majority voted for a strike at the end of March

A Fraport spokeswoman said that a total of around 1,320 take-offs and landings with around 176,000 passengers were planned for Friday. Flight cancellations due to the strike have not yet been recorded here. As a rule, the entire thing comes Lufthansagroup accounts for around 60 percent of traffic volume.

The German flight attendant union UFO has the employees of the core brand Lufthansa and its feeder company Cityline called for a one-day industrial action. All departures are scheduled to take place on Friday from 12:01 a.m. to 10:00 p.m Lufthansa from their hubs in Frankfurt and Munich. According to the Independent Flight Attendants Organization (UFO), Cityline cabin workers at nine German airports will stop work during the same time frame. In ballots at the end of March, the vast majority of those surveyed voted in favor of a strike after talks failed.

AUA and other subsidiaries are flying more frequently

In Germany they are Lufthansa-Airlines Discover, Lufthansa City and Eurowings will take on additional flights if possible, as the company announced. International subsidiaries such as Austrian Airlines (AUA), Swiss, Brussels Airlines, Air Dolomiti and ITA Airways would also try to offer additional frequencies and use larger aircraft on their flights to and from Germany.

At the AUA, the connections are followed Munich and Frankfurt larger machines are used, a spokeswoman for the airline told the APA. However, the strike in Germany does not lead to any changes to the AUA flight schedule.

Union demands better working conditions

This, on the other hand, argues that neither in the negotiations about improved working conditions for the around 19,000 flight attendants at the core brand Lufthansa The employer side has also moved on to the social plan for the around 800 employees of the Cityline, which is about to be closed.

This situation could have been avoided – the responsibility lies with them Lufthansawhich has not yet even managed to present a negotiable offer,” explained UFO boss Joachim Vázquez Bürger, with a view to the struggle for a new collective agreement for them Lufthansa.