by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 8, 2015 | Austrian, Brussels, Featured, germanwings, Lufthansa, Strike, Swiss |
Due to the scheduled strike by French Air Traffic Controllers that will take place between Wednesday and Friday, Lufthansa Group carriers have been forced to cancel flights to and from Paris.
Thus far, LH has canceled 24 flights for April 8 departing from Frankfurt and Munich, and should the strike go into a second day, additional cancellations can be expected for Thursday April 9. In addition, Germanwings has canceled 12 flights that are scheduled to operated between France and Germany on April 8.
LH Group member ‘SWISS’ has canceled 11 flights for April 8 with more cancellations possible for April 9.
Austrian and Brussels are warning that their flights may be impacted by the strike but they have not published any information regarding cancelled flights as yet.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Mar 20, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa, Strike |
Lufthansa has announced that up to half of their long-haul schedule for Saturday, March 21 may be adversely affected due to the scheduled strike. 86 out of 160 flights are expected to be flown.
LH has also updated their latest strike-adjusted timetable that now includes flight info for the flights that are impacted on Saturday. Click here to be taken to that list.
For more information, including rebooking and refund options please click here to be taken to the Lufthansa Strike Update page.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Mar 19, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa, Strike |
I’m convinced that a bunch of chimps are running the union at this point and are just pushing the ‘STRIKE‘ button…..
In what they think is an intelligent move, the union representing Lufthansa’s pilots has called for a 4th strike. This time targeting long-haul flights on Saturday, March 21.
This is the fourth strike this week as they have been alternating between disrupting short haul and long haul flights. It is expected that up to a third of long haul flights may be impacted on Saturday. However during previous long-haul strikes, impacts are relatively minor since there are enough reasonable pilots out there that still care about their passengers.
More information including the affected flights will be published tomorrow by Lufthansa. Please keep in mind that this strike does not impact the operations of SWISS, Austrian, Germanwings, Brussels or Eurowings.
I think at some point in the near future, the union will have this backfire in the court of public opinion. Its happened in the past and the unions would back off. Now with over 180,000 passengers inconvenienced by this week’s strikes, I suspect the pendulum will shift against the union. Or at least one can hope it does…..
I can understand this type of behavior in France, Greece and Italy where strikes are a national past time and the concept is handed down from generation to generation and in some cases is even a career. What I don’t understand is how this could happen to Germany and her once proud traditions….but I digress.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Mar 19, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa, Strike |
The Pilot’s Union must have completely lost the plot……
A 3rd strike has now been called by the Union. Pilots will walk off the job on Friday March 20 for 24 hours. The target this time is Lufthansa mainline’s short and medium haul flights. This is similar to Wednesday’s strike except it excludes Germanwings.
Stay tuned as LH will publish a list of flights that will be affected on Friday. This list should be available sometime tomorrow afternoon.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Mar 18, 2015 | Cargo, Featured, Lufthansa, Strike |
Lufthansa announced today that approximately half of their scheduled Long-Haul flights will operate as planned tomorrow during the strike. In other words, 43 of 85 flights will not be canceled. The union’s initial claim was that it would impact ALL Long Haul flights. Cargo has indicated that none of their flights will be impacted.
An update has been made available that covers the specific flights that have been cancelled tomorrow. You can find that info HERE. To find out what options are available as far as rebooking and refunds are concerned, please go HERE.
Lufthansa expects to be back to normal by Friday.
I’m glad that these strikes happened this week and not next week 😉 .
