Lufthansa’s Eurowings Hit as Three-Day UFO Union Strike Begins
- Action will affect around 180 mostly domestic German flights
- Further strikes may be announced by union in the new year
A display shows canceled Germanwings flights at Cologne Bonn Airport on Dec. 30.
Photographer: Henning Kaiser/Getty Images
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Cabin crew at Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s Germanwings unit began a three-day strike Monday that will affect around 180 mostly domestic Eurowings flights out of about 1,200 scheduled during the New Year period.
The latest industrial action affecting Lufthansa underscores fragile relations between Europe’s biggest airline group and labor representatives as the company fights a continent-wide capacity war with low-cost carriers.