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Lufthansa Cancels Some 100 Flights over Strike

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Germany's largest air carrier Lufthansa on Friday canceled more than 100 flights because of a strike of its flight attendants, the company said in a statement published on its Web site.

Germany's largest air carrier Lufthansa on Friday canceled more than 100 flights because of a strike of its flight attendants, the company said in a statement published on its Web site.

Lufthansa flight attendants are striking on Friday from 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. local time. They are demanding a 5-percent increase in wages. Negotiations between the country’s flight attendant union UFO and the employer have not been successful.

Because of the financial crunch, Lufthansa plans to lay off 3,500 employees and economize 1.5 billion euros over the next three years. In order to reduce its costs Lufthansa plans to reform its subsidiary airline Germanwings and partially move there Lufthansa employees by paying them lower wages.

Currently Estonia’s basketball team cannot return to Tallinn due to the flight attendant strike.

On Friday morning, the Estonian basketball players left the Slovak town of Levice and headed to Budapest. From the capital of Hungary they had to fly to Frankfurt and then to Tallinn but Lufthansa canceled the flights from Budapest to Frankfurt. Now the heads of the Estonian delegation are trying to figure out how to get the team home.

 

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