Lufthansa pilots to strike Tuesday and Wednesday

Pilots’ kinship Cockpit pronounced it was pursuit on members drifting short-haul flights to stay divided from work on Tuesday, and those drifting both brief and long-haul destinations to theatre a walkout on Wednesday.

“Unfortunately, high-level talks hold currently during brief notice unsuccessful to lead to an agreement on a salary contract,” pronounced Jörg Handwerg, house member during Cockpit.

“It is totally unintelligible that (Lufthansa) has refused to put brazen an offer that can during slightest form a basement of a negotiation,” he added.

Lufthansa was forced to cancel some-more than 2,700 flights, inspiring over 300,000 passengers, after pilots went on strike from Wednesday to Saturday in their 14th walkout given Apr 2014.

To solve a long-running dispute, Lufthansa on Friday pronounced it could offer a 2.4-percent compensate arise in 2016, going adult by another dual percent to strech 4.4 percent in 2017.

Pilots would also accept a one-off remuneration homogeneous to scarcely dual months’ wages.

The airline had formerly due a 2.5-percent salary hike.

But Friday’s offer was quickly deserted by Cockpit, that has been perfectionist a compensate arise of an normal of 3.66 percent per year, retroactive for a past 5 years.

The German conduit has been battling a array of walkouts by both a pilots and cabin organisation over a past dual years, as it seeks to move down costs to tarry foe from bill rivals such as EasyJet and Ryanair.

In July, it finished a long-running brawl with cabin organisation by a understanding on compensate and operative conditions, including a no-strike agreement and pursuit guarantees until 2021.

The breakthrough came after cabin staff staged a longest walkout in Lufthansa’s story final November, with a seven-day blocking that led to 4,700 moody cancellations and grounded over half a million passengers.

The airline pronounced final month that it expects a annual gain before seductiveness and taxation will strech “approximately a prior year’s level” of €1.8 billion.