by Lufthansa Flyer | Aug 28, 2012 | Airlines |
UFO, The Flight Attendant/Cabin Crew Union representing Lufthansa Cabin Crew has announced that no strike actions will take place on Wednesday. However they have suggested strike actions will occur randomly on Thursday. Notice may or may not be given by the union ahead of any strike action.
If this strategy is a repeat of previous strikes involving airport staff, we’ll see random stoppages lasting a few hours at a time and affecting only certain airports.
Lufthansa’s objective is to maintain normal operation of most of their long haul flights and flights operated by it’s regional subsidiary during these strike actions.
I’ll provide an update if anything else develops in the meantime.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Aug 28, 2012 | Airlines |
On August 28, 1919 representatives from 6 airlines gathered at The Hague, Netherlands to create the International Air Traffic Association . This association took on the responsibility of coordinating and standardizing international air travel (which began in 1919) and Postal Air Services. It was the fore-father to the modern day International Air Transport Association (IATA) that was founded in Havana, Cuba in April of 1945.
Germany’s Deutsche Luft-Reederei (what would become today’s Lufthansa) joined with 5 other European carriers to form the association who’s objective was to establish policies and procedures that would govern the member airline’s technical, logistical and operational processes.
The other 5 founding members of this alliance included:
Air Transport & Travel – Great Britain
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KLM) – Netherlands
Svenska Luft Trafik A.B. – Sweden
Det Dankse Luftfartselskab – Denmark
Det Norske Luftfartsrederi – Norway
The original IATA never did gain far reaching oversight due to restrictions that were in place in the Ruhr and Rhineland regions as a result of the Treaty of Versailles that effectively ended World War I between Germany and the allied forces.
The IATA would be limited to European airline operations and primarily would focus on the regulation of Air Mail since it was the primary driver of Airline revenue at the time. Pan Am would become the first non-European member when it joined in 1939. However with the beginning of hostilities in Europe in 1939 that would lead to World War 2, the IATA’s activities were put on hold until the revised IATA was unveiled in Havana after the war.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Aug 28, 2012 | Airlines |
Updating my previous post regarding a potential strike, it has now become official that no strike will be called today. However the Union in their comments said that it will stage random short term work stoppages on only a few hours notice. This was a similar tactic used by ground workers at German airports earlier this year during their labor disputes.
Der Spiegel reported that UFO, the union representing the Flight Attendants/Cabin Crew announced at a press conference that it will not begin a full-blown work stoppage today as was expected when negotiations between the union and Lufthansa broke down during the overnight hours between Monday and Tuesday.
The Flight attendants are requesting a 5% pay raise and other benefits that ensured their job security as Lufthansa seeks to streamline the employment structure of it’s flight attendants and cabin crew.
