Lufthansa Pilots Will Strike Until Friday as Pay Feud Escalates
- Union extends walkout to third day after injunction bid fails
- About 40% of services grounded in first days of action
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Strikes at Deutsche Lufthansa AG will wipe out thousands of flights after a failed bid to have a pilot walkout over pay declared illegal led a union to extend the action by two more days.
The long-running spat reached new levels of bitterness after the Vereinigung Cockpit union defeated an application to have the strike blocked late Tuesday, and then upped the ante by lengthening the action. Lufthansa said the “incomprehensible” step would inflict “extensive damage” on its business and hit back by reviving a legal claim against the labor group dating to 2014.