Lufthansa Airline unrest.
12, April, 2010 German air traffic controllers will meet today. Couple of things you should know. German ATC's only have to give 24 hours notice and by law 25% of air traffic must fly. New page folks. German air traffic controllers strike, move along with us
8. April, 2010 I almost feel bad in telling you this, but German air traffic controllers are threatening strike. We will watch it like a hawk.
7, April, 2010 News came out today that the union has canceled the up and coming strike and will concentrate on talks with the mediator. Good news all around. You can slip by unhindered.
Update:-Tuesday, 6, April, 2010 No talks between union and airline are scheduled.
Update:- Monday, 5, April, 2010, Lufthansa pilots strike is still on, so far no deal made with unions.
1. April,2010 Union representing Deutsche Lufthansa AG pilots is prepared to take a dispute with Germany's biggest airline to arbitration, a move that could avert a four-day strike planned for mid-April. Strike has not been cancelled.
3/31/2010 Lufthansa management looking to bargain with pilots and threaten to seek damages from union if four day strike goes ahead.
3/22 Lufthansa pilots union announced 4 day strike from from Tuesday, April 13 through Friday, 16. Better call them to reschedule, ASAP.
3/19/10 Eurowings pilots have unanimously voted to strike.
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Update:- Monday, 8 March. Negotiations still on going. Union say's talks are "extremely difficult." No new walk out's due this week.
Update:-Lufthansa Airline Strike
Codeshares with Jetblue.
(Lufthansa rejects name Stalingrad for new jet. Dailymail.co.uk)
6 March, 2010 Update:-Good news of sorts. German pilots union say they will not strike whilst talks continue after March, 9. "Negotiations remain constructive, there is no reason to strike." See you will sneak by, another satisfied customer.
5 March, 10, Update:-Lufthansa airline pilots union is deep in conversation with management and don't see reason to strike on March, 9 while negotiations are on going so well. Relax you will be able to fly, congratulations you've snuck by!! Even so, don't go all rosie on me and book with them again any time soon..
4, March, 10 Update on Air Berlin, strikes off, agreed to more talks.
3/3/10 Air Berlin threaten a three hour strike. "Will be in the coming days"? Perhaps you can squeeze by.
Last strike threat..
2/24/10 Lufthansa flights just getting back to normal.
Update:- Monday, 22 Feb. 2010 Lufthansa pilots
have agreed to suspend the walkout until March 9
4,000 pilots will return to work. German court ruled against the union. Sorry to break it to you after you've fought for a train ticket, borrowed or rented a car, paid extra for competing air ticket and tipped the hotel clerk.. Hurry, re-book your flight while your can.
German airline Lufthansa is asking a court to halt a strike by more than 4,000 of its pilots. Decision within the next 24 hours. Long-haul flights to the U.S., New York and Denver, were canceled. Some South America and Asia flights on schedule. Passengers arriving at Munich airport are being reimbursed. Twitter reports Frankfort airport is "orderly". Copenhagen, "Chaos on Kastrup airport", Keep checking back.
Passengers scramble for car rentals, hotel rooms and other airlines up their prices.
Customers can continue to obtain information about their bookings, as well as about the rebooking options and cancellations, at 800-645-3880 in the U.S. and 800-563-5954 in Canada.
According to the special flight schedule, the following flights to/from North America are scheduled to take place during the period from February 22-25:
February 22
LH 412 Munich - Newark
LH 413 Newark - Munich
LH 430 Frankfurt - Chicago
LH 431 Chicago - Frankfurt
LH 434 Munich - Chicago
LH 435 Chicago - Munich
LH 438 Frankfurt - Dallas Ft Worth
LH 439 Dallas Ft Worth - Frankfurt
LH 492 Frankfurt - Vancouver
LH 493 Vancouver - Frankfurt
LH 498 Frankfurt - Mexico City
LH 499 Mexico City - Frankfurt
February 23
LH 412 Munich - Newark
LH 413 Newark - Munich
LH 492 Frankfurt - Vancouver
LH 493 Vancouver - Frankfurt
February 24
LH 412 Munich - Newark
LH 413 Newark - Munich
LH 434 Munich - Chicago
LH 435 Chicago - Munich
LH 442 Frankfurt - Detroit
LH 443 Detroit - Frankfurt
LH 492 Frankfurt - Vancouver
LH 493 Vancouver - Frankfurt
LH 498 Frankfurt - Mexico City
LH 499 Mexico - City Frankfurt
February 25
LH 412 Munich - Newark
LH 413 Newark - Munich
LH 434 Munich - Chicago
LH 435 Chicago - Munich
LH 490 Frankfurt - Seattle
LH 491 Seattle - Frankfurt
LH 492 Frankfurt - Vancouver
LH 493 Vancouver - Frankfurt
Update:- Sunday, 21 Feb.Airline offers pilots a deal, pilots have not received any deals? I don't get it either..
Long hauls to UAE and Nigeria hope you've called. Airline cancelled its Lagos to Frankfurt flights of Monday and Thursday.
Lufthansa has said it will cancel 1,200 flights of the 1,800 daily services
Update:-Lufthansa Airline Strike is on, four days, starting this Monday night at midnight, 22, Feb, 2010. Best call them. Check you don't codeshare with Lufthansa Airlines.
Update:-20, Feb. 2010. Union offering to talk to management before strike. So far no meeting is planned. Lufthansa Cityline will operate their flights according to schedule.
Feb. 18, 2010 Lufthansa Airlines management now questioning legality of strike. Estimated loss for airline to be EUR 25 million a day. Are you flying on Austrian Airlines? Austrian Airlines has set up a hotline for customers wishing to obtain information about their booking (rebookings/cancellation): +43 51766-1000. Germanwings information on re-booking tickets can be obtained from Germanwings' information centre in Sofia by calling 02/491 7413.
Update:-Confirmed, Lufthansa pilots will strike, will effect Germanwings and Cargo AG. Four-day strike starting on Monday, midnight 22, Feb. 2010. Ending midnight Thursday 25 Feb. Call 800 850-6070, Lufthansa will publish tomorrow (Friday) a special flight schedule during the strike period. Experienced Lufthansa flight captains earn between $150,000 to $340,000 per year.
Feb 17, 2010 Results due in today, Lufthansa gearing up for strike, drawing up an emergency plan involving putting customers from several flights onto larger aircraft, booking passengers onto other airlines and providing train tickets.
16, January, 2010 Lufthansa, Lufthansa cargo and Germanwings pilots will make the decision whether or not to strike Wednesday, February, 17. Pilots concerned jobs will be shifted to subsidiaries such as Brussels Airlines or Austrian Airlines, where pilots are paid significantly less. Union will need 70 percent of the vote for industrial action.
9/09 JetBlue Airways and Lufthansa have signed a codeshare agreement
7/24/09 Vereinigung Cockpit union, is asking for a 6.4% pay increase for its 4,500 pilots over the next year or a 9.6% rise over the next 18 months, plus bonuses
3/29/09 A Profit posted at €599 million; last year's figure had been €1.66 billion!
10 March, 2009 Tuesday Lufthansa agreed to pay cabin crews a wage increase of 4.2 percent, deal will avoid strikes. Deal is retroactive beginning Jan 1, it also provides for a one time payment based on 2008 profits an dthe employee;s salary level.
10 March, 2009 Departures for today seem to be ontime.
9 March, 09 The UFO union, which represents some 16,000 cabin attendants, said it planned to hold strikes for several hours at short notice, but not for long periods.
Nice, so comforting to passengers. Much harder to monitor. I imagine it depends which way the wind blows, did they wake up on the right side of the bed, who knows?
9 March, 2009 Cabin crew balloting ends today. Still in negotiations, have voted over whelmingly to strike. Will keep you informed.
20 February, 2009 Lufhansa employees start balloting Monday. Will finish March 9, 09. 75 percent of union members have to vote for union action. In the mean time warning strikes will continue.
17 February, 2009 Cancellations and delays maybe in the future for Lufthansa again. Deutsche Lufthansa, Union UFO have not made Lufthansa cabin crew happy, wage talks failed today. Perhaps they will ballot for industrial action. Lufthansa is offering, profit sharing, increase of 10 percent and better working conditions. Fourth quarter had yielded stronger results than expected, aided by lower airline fuel.
February, 09 Closes sales offices in India, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Hyderabad. Thomas Cook Group plans to buy Lufthansa's 24.9% stake in Condor airlines for 77 millon euros ($100.4 million) in cash. Thomas Cook is controlled by German retailer Arcandor which is in the businesses of mail order and Internet shopping, department stores, and tourism services. Established 1999
1/27/09 tomorrow, 28 January, 2009 Wednesday flight attendants on strike 6am-noon.
1/26/09 Lufthansa cabin crew may go on strike again today or in coming days. A three hour flight last Friday involved cutting half it's 90 flights.
1/23/09 Lufthansa, flight attendants wildcat strike today for three hours, caused 14 cancellations and numerous delays. Talks broke down last Friday.
1/22/09 Lufthansa has new lounge at JFK. Behind security check points in Terminal One, First class top floor, second floor, bistro and showers and bath tubs!
1/21/09 Pilot strike today by affiliate airline Con-tact Air,
10/2/08 Air Canada pilots together with the Continental and United pilots, Sign Protocol Agreement in Response to Airlines Joint Venture .marketwatch.com
8/22/08 German pilots' union Cockpit has threatened Deutsche Lufthansa AG with more strikes should the airline not meet the union's demands for better wages, forbes.com
8/15/08 ``Some airlines are struggling to survive,'' Ehrhardt said. ``That's not something Lufthansa is facing.'' bloomberg.com
8/8/08 Friday's cancelations followed the scrapping of some 360 flights on Thursday. CityLine operates on domestic German and European routes.businessweek.com
8/7/08 The German pilot union Cockpit called Thursday, Aug. 7, for more than 700 pilots employed by Lufthansa subsidiary Cityline to observe a 36-hour strike in support of increased pay..dw-world.de
8/4/08 Lufthansa, As vice president of the airline's supervisory board, Bsirske is entitled to free tickets. As a result, he left on vacation with his wife for the US city, from where he continued on to a South Pacific island destination.Bsirske had demonstrated "a basic political lack of judgement." afp.google.com
8/3/08 Lufthansa pilots will have a three hour strike this week to demand their own work council. Expects to cancel around 130 flights on Monday and will not resume its full flight schedule for two weeks after a strike last week, a spokesman said.Checks to aircraft had backed up during the strike over pay,which trade union Verdi ended on Saturday after reaching a wage deal with the airline on Friday.
From Tuesday, some 40 flights a day would be cancelled, of which around 35 would be European flights, Lufthansa said.
Lufthansa usually runs about 2,000 flights per day. (Writing by Paul Carrel; editing by Sue Thomas) reuters.
8/1/08 Lufthansa reaches agreement with strike ground staff.telegraph.co.uk/
8/1/08 Lufthansa strike begins to take toll . Deutsche Lufthansa said it cancelled round trips to New York, Dallas, Chicago, Calgary, Calcutta and Dubai. The rest of the 82 flights cancelled were for destinations in Germany and Europe. nzherald.co.nz
7/31/08 Lufthansa Strike Displays German Thoroughness, Expert Says dw-world.de
7/30/08 Lufthansa cuts 10 percent of Europe flights due to strike. uk.reuters.com
7/30/08 Lufthansa strike has no effect on UK services. travelweekly.co.uk
7/30/08 Strike-hit Lufthansa cancels long-haul flights. iht.com
7/29/08 Strike-hit Lufthansa posts weaker first half profit of 402 mln euros. afp.google.com
7/29/08 Lufthansa Cuts 70 Flights, Grounds 9 Planes in Strike bloomberg.com
7/28/08 Lufthansa.Workers at Germany's biggest airline, Lufthansa, on Monday began an indefinite strike at the height of the holiday season to press for higher pay, in the latest walkout to hit Europe's biggest economy. afpgoogle
BERLIN (AP) — Frankfurt and Hamburg airports will be the hardest hit on Monday when 52,000 employees of Lufthansa AG go on strike, a union official said Sunday./ap.google.com
7/27/08 Lufthansa. Ground personnel and flight crews would stop working on Sunday at midnight (2200 GMT), the union said last week after workers it represented approved the action by an overwhelming majority of 90.7 percent.
German Lufthansa votes for 1st strike in 13 years. uk.reuters.com/
7/25/08 Lufthansa, the leading German airline, faces a major strike next week after members of the German trade union Verdi voted on Friday for a strike to press demands for higher wages.afp.google.com
7/23/08 Strike at Lufthansa units cause widespread cancellations. The Local
7/22/08 Germany,12:00 p.m. today until midnight tomorrow, pilots at Eurowings and CityLine will be on strike. The strikes will affect all German cities where the two carriers operate, which include Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg.forbes
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15 July 08 Lufthansa AG.'s grounds crew and cabin crew workers today started balloting on possible industrial action that may cripple flight operations during the busy summer travel season. hemscott.com
11 July 08, German union to stage ballot on Lufthansa strike, walkouts possible this month iht.com
10/7/08 Lufthansa, spokesman said at midday that the talks had collapsed. monstersandcritics.com/news
9 July 08, Lufthansa demand compensation for heathrow debacle. thisislondon.co.uk
7/7/08 Lufthansa pilots to strike on Monday over pay UK Reuters.com
Lufthansa subsidiary this week called a 24hr bitter strike and inconvienced several thousand people.
3 July 08 Lufthansa Workers Down Tools. thepmnews.com
July 1 (Reuters) - Germany's Deutsche Lufthansa cut 40 flights on Tuesday and did not rule out further cancellations as workers carried out warning strikes to pressure the airline in a dispute over pay.
6/27/08 Workers at Deutsche Lufthansa AG.'s ground crew in Munich continued warnings strikes this afternoon, with 70 aircraft mechanics and technicians halting work for two hours, works council head Manfred Hackl said. forbes.com
But a spokeswoman for Munich airport said there were no delays due to the strike.
6/26/08 Lufthansa says will meet profit target despite fuel costs afp.google
6/23/08 FRANKFURT, Germany (AP): German airline Lufthansa AG ground crews staged a surprise four-hour strike early Monday in Duesseldorf, causing delays or cancellations of about 40 flights, the union ver.di said.
According to the union, about 1,500 passengers were affected. thestar.com.my
4 June, 08 Lufthansa Flight Training Purchases Five Flight Training Devices from Mechtronix
5/23/08 Beginning October 26th, Lufthansa Airlines will launch its popular all-business class service six times per week between Boston and Munich. The route will be served with an Airbus A319 Corporate Jet in a 48-seat, all-business class configuration. The new flight is a premium extension of Lufthansa's existing widebody summer service between Boston and Munich, which daily offers 221 seats in a three-class configuration. It also complements the existing daily service between Boston and Frankfurt and the daily SWISS flight between Boston and Zurich. travelvideotv
5/21/08 Lufthansa Airline says 62 flights at its Cityline, Eurowing units canceled amid pilot strike IHT
March 4 Lufthansa Airline urges strike-hit passengers to take train per reuters
Lufthansa Airline , Pilots Reach Pay Agreement to Avoid Strike per Bloomberg.com
May 07, German Airline, Lufthansa, economy class may get beds! news.com.au
13 Dec Lufthansa Airlines buys stake in Jet Blue, 19%, $300 million
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April, 13-16, 2010
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