Air transport: Lufthansa pilots brandish strike threat

Lufthansa planes at Munich airport on June 25, 2020. AFP / Archivos

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After a strike by ground staff last Wednesday, the German airline Lufthansa is facing discontent from pilots.

They have just voted by a very large majority for the strike.

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With our correspondent in Berlin

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More than 97% of the pilots voted for the strike, which, for the moment, constitutes only a warning launched at the direction.

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 ," said the Cockpit pilots' union.

The threat of seeing Lufthansa planes grounded in the near future has thus grown, but the result of the consultation does 

", he added.

The union is demanding a 5.5% salary increase, with automatic indexation, then, in the face of inflation.

Cockpit also requires a single salary scale for the personnel of all the companies in the group, including the low-cost division Eurowings.

Growls in the group

Because anger is indeed rumbling: first of all there are the pilots of Swiss international, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, who have just rejected a proposal for a new contract.

Then there is this strike last Wednesday of ground staff in airports, at the call of the Verdi union which forced Lufthansa to cancel more than a thousand flights.

And then, the coronavirus crisis is still being felt.

Due to a lack of staff at the airports, the German airline was forced to reduce the airfoil at the start of the summer.

Lufthansa has approximately 5,500 pilots in its passenger and cargo business.

►Also read: Air transport: faced with a strike, Lufthansa cuts a thousand flights

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