Lufthansa Cabin Crews Start Strike With Walkout in Frankfurt
- Frankfurt, Dusseldorf bases affected by initial work stoppage
- Airline to run almost all long-haul services on Saturday
Lufthansa, which has said it made an improved offer that the union turned down, said Friday that it will publish an emergency timetable by noon German time.
Photographer: Martin Leissl/BloombergDeutsche Lufthansa AG cabin crews began a week of strikes with a nine-hour walkout in Frankfurt and Dusseldorf after talks with the German airline broke down over retirement terms.
Flight attendants are stopping work at the two airports from 2 p.m. through 11 p.m. Friday, and for 17 hours on Saturday starting at 6 a.m., with the halt in Frankfurt that day limited to services on single-aisle Airbus A320-series and Boeing 737 planes, the UFO union said in a statement. Lufthansa said its only long-haul cancellation on Saturday will be a Dusseldorf-Newark, New Jersey, flight, while almost all European flights from Frankfurt will be dropped except “a few” to Munich and three serving London Heathrow.