Lufthansa cabin crews to strike in German cities – Instances of India

BERLIN: Lufthansa cabin crew have referred to as a two-day strikes subsequent week within the german cities of Frankfurt and Munichthe UFO union introduced Saturday, days after the airline introduced document earnings.
“On Thursday, the group introduced a document end result,” mentioned UFO union chief Joachim Vazquez Buerger.
“The cabin crew have to have the ability to profit from this success, and the efforts made through the Coronavirus disaster should be rewarded.”
The strike will cowl flights out of Frankfurt on Tuesday and from Munich on Wednesday, with Lufthansa’s subsidiary CityLine additionally affected.
Lufthansa mentioned later Saturday that round 100,000 vacationers could be hit by the stoppages.
“We deeply remorse coming so far and ask passengers… to excuse us for the inconveniences coming,” he mentioned.
On Thursday, Lufthansa reported that 2023 earnings doubled on booming demand, with a web revenue of 1.67 billion euros ($1.82 billion), considerably increased than a determine of 791 million euros in 2022.
That marked a second straight yr of earnings for the group — whose carriers embody Lufthansa, Eurowings, Austrian, Swiss and Brussels Airways — after two years of losses as a result of pandemic shutdowns.
The corporate additionally took the chance to warn in regards to the “damaging” affect of a wave of commercial motion at the beginning of this yr.
However worker representatives say salaries haven’t saved tempo with the earnings, whilst inflation has eroded their spending energy, resulting in a collection of strikes for the reason that starting of this yr.
The most recent walkout started final Thursday, with Lufthansa floor workers staging a nationwide two-day strike after a earlier walkout in February.
“After 15 rounds of talks with out an settlement, we should assume that administration desires the scenario to worsen, at passengers’ expense,” the UFO’s negotiator Harry Jaeger mentioned late Saturday.
Lufthansa has mentioned it made “an excellent provide that notably consists of pay will increase of at the least 10 %”.
It has proposed a bonus of three,000 euros ($3,280) for cabin crew members and a pay enhance of six % in August, adopted by a 3.25 % enhance a yr later.