New Delhi: Germany’s Lufthansa Airlines has cancelled 1000 thousand flights. This comes ahead of a one-day walkout by the airlines’ ground staff which is scheduled for Wednesday.
Many airlines have cancelled their flights due to staff shortages. Numbers of cancelled flights edge to thousand. This has caused massive logjams among the travelers and passengers who are trying to get a sway of vacation before Monkeypox seeps in and possibly induce the next lockdown. Monkeypox has already been declared a global health emergency by the WHO.
Lufthansa cancel flights at these hubs
Lufthansa officials informed that they have cancelled 345 flights in Munich, 15 of them were scheduled for Tuesday. While the remaining 330 flights that the airlines’ cancelled were scheduled for Wednesday. This is expected to impact almost 42,000 passengers.
Another 678 flights have been cancelled at the airlines’ Frankfurt hub, 32 of them were scheduled for Tuesday. While the remaining 646 flights that the airlines’ cancelled were scheduled for Wednesday. This is expected to impact almost 92,000 passengers.
Over 1.3 lacs passenger affected
Over 1,30,000 passengers have been affected by this decision. Lufthansa further informed that there could be more such cancellations regarding which the information will be rolled out on Thursday and Friday.
Official Statement from Lufthansa
Michael Niggemann, Chief Human Resources Officer and Labor Director of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, says: “The early escalation of a previously constructive collective bargaining round is causing enormous damage. It affects our passengers in particular, who are impacted during the peak travel season. And it is putting an additional heavy strain on our employees in an already difficult phase for air traffic.”
He further said, “In view of our high offer with very substantial pay increases over the next 12 months of more than 10 percent more in the pay groups up to 3,000 euros monthly basic pay and a 6 percent increase for a monthly basic pay of 6,500 euros, this so-called warning strike is in the middle of the peak summer travel season is simply no longer proportionate.”
