Cabin crew goes on strike
Lufthansa expects 1,000 flight cancellations
March 11, 2024, 6:01 p.m
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Tomorrow in Frankfurt and the day after tomorrow in Munich – a total of 19,000 Lufthansa flight attendants are on strike. The company expects that more than 100,000 passengers will have to reschedule. This is not the only source of conflict for the crane airline.
The strike by Lufthansa flight attendants is forcing tens of thousands of passengers to reschedule this Tuesday and Wednesday. The airline assumes that a total of 1,000 flights will be canceled in Frankfurt and Munich on the two days: 600 in Frankfurt and 400 in Munich. According to a Lufthansa spokesman, around 120,000 passengers will be affected: 70,000 in Frankfurt and 50,000 in Munich.
The cabin union UFO has called on around 19,000 flight attendants at Lufthansa and Lufthansa Cityline to go on strike. All departures from Frankfurt will be on strike from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Tuesday and all departures from Munich on Wednesday, as UFO announced. The flight attendants of the core company and the regional subsidiary Lufthansa Cityline had previously voted for the strike in separate ballots with more than 96 percent each.
UFO is essentially demanding 15 percent more money for Lufthansa’s approximately 19,000 cabin employees and the almost 1,000 Cityline employees over a contract period of 18 months. The union also wants to achieve an inflation compensation bonus of 3,000 euros and higher allowances.
For Lufthansa, this is just one of several current wage disputes: Last week, the ground staff organized by Verdi paralyzed much of Lufthansa’s passenger traffic with what is now their fifth wave of warning strikes. Negotiations with Verdi are scheduled to take place again on Wednesday.