NEWS FLASH
Lufthansa’s cabin crew will go on strike this Tuesday and Wednesday, resulting in the cancellation of the majority of the airline’s flights over the two-day period. It comes just a week after services were cancelled due to a two-day strike by Lufthansa’s ground staff. The latest industrial action will result in the cancellation of all Lufthansa flights departing Frankfurt on Tuesday, March 12 from 4.00 until 23.00 CET, and all flights departing Munich on Wednesday, March 13 from 4.00 until 23.00 CET. This Tuesday, Lufthansa had six flights scheduled from Frankfurt to former Yugoslav markets, including two each to Belgrade and Ljubljana and one flight to Zagreb and Sarajevo. On Wednesday, four flights were scheduled from Munich, including two to Belgrade, and one each to Ljubljana and Zagreb.
Over 96% of Lufthansa’s cabin crew voted in favour of the walk out. They are seeking a 15% pay increase, plus a one-time 3.000-euro inflation compensation payment after the Lufthansa Group posted a 1.7 billion euro net profit for 2023.
I think that its a shame that this is happening to such a big airline. If it happend to JU or OU everybody would complain then.
ReplyDeleteWho says people are not complaining? I have been rebooked three times in as many months due to LH strikes and now I've switched to ASL as this was super annoying and a terrible waste of time. Not happy with ASL either due to constant delays but have no third option.
DeleteLufthansa has become a horrible company. They have extra big profit and ground and cabin staff have miserable salaries. They should protest more
DeleteGround and cabin staff do not have "miserable" salaries, in fact they are among the most highly paid airline staff in Europe.
DeleteThey may be among the highest paid staff in Europe, but also, the costs of living in Germany are among the highest in Europe. Median gross pay is 35 000 eur p.a., approx 2000 net per month. Compare it to what pilots earn: mean >200 000 eur p.a. and CEO pay of approx. 5 Million.
DeleteThe most highly? No such thing in English. How about the highest?
DeleteYou are not honest Anonymous11:05, ASL statics on live tracking definitely do not agree with your statement. They are in 5 minutes of OTP ( which is very good ). Lufthansa is very unhealthy company for the last 5 years and their products is getting worse every day.
Delete@13:28 Statistics can be seen from different angles. To see the truth about JU operations just check BEG arrivals and you will have a completely different picture of how JU is mostly always late.
DeleteLH has been a very bad airlines for many years: very poor inföight experience and seatkng. Although being a star allinace gold member since 2000 I avoid LH as much a possible
Delete@anon 12:59
Delete"Highest-paid" or "most highly paid" are both correct, even if the former is more common. Not sure why you felt such a burning need to correct the OP.
Comparing cabin crew/ground staff to pilots' pay is like comparing a doctor's pay to a bus driver's pay.
DeleteSpeaking of which: O Leary once described pilots as "glorified bus drivers"
DeleteAnother day another Lufthansa strike
ReplyDeleteClose the company LH! Shame you!
Deletelong gone are the times airliner management had any affection for aviation. It is all about money now. All. Greedy bastards - workers made almost 2 billion € profit, and they get what? Finger in their shupak...
ReplyDeleteLH pay is quite good. Workers are greedy to be honest, they expect pilot pay for ground/cabin crew
DeleteAt least LH look after passengers when strikes happen. If Ryanair or Wizz were to strike, you would be left on your own to deal with it.
ReplyDeleteLook after? The system is in utter shambles, it takes 3-4 hours to get a response from the call centre, and there are 1000+ people in the queue if you try to reach out to them via chat. Joke airline.
DeleteAlso the reroutes are incredibly awkward. Know a guy who wanted to fly LJU-FRA-AGP over 5 hours and ended up with something like LJU-WAW-ZRH-AGP with over 18 hours of flight time
DeleteGermany overall is a PR and perception stunt. It all ended when it was hit hard by globalization and immigration.
Delete@11:42 When my flight with Wizz was canceled it was super easy to book another flight on their website for free, they informed us via email, also when my plane landed in SKG instead of SKP they brought us with buses on their cost.
DeleteYes beautifully looked after - bought a ticket directly at LH website, weren't allowed to reebok flights via app/web, couldn't get LH staff to rebook me via callcentre, finally got help from home airport non-LH staff who were able to fix it internally, got home with only two days delay. Wish they would get better pay too, as now the pay difference between rookie agent in FRA/MUC and home airport agents with incomparably more knowledge and experience is waaaay toooo huge and definitely unfair.
Delete@13:02 Well said. I live in Germany for years and spent actually a part of my childhood there. You can't compare the work ethic of an old German lad with the current employees. If someone can hold up with their mentality, then our old jugo gastos people. A German coworker once told me: Mate, it is all the same, the new generations are bad i.e. mostly whinny people. The mentality spilled over from country to the other.
DeleteNobody cares about work. Also, the globalization hit the Germans hard. Their source of success was in particular, their German spirit, which it seems, left the society sometime in the 90's. I am really sad, that LF became a mere memory of a glorious legacy carrier. Their hubs FRA and MUC are pretty nice, and I love the Germans, because we are quite alike. Of course, our Slavic soul makes us yugos a little bit more unpredictable, but we both have a conservative upbringing.
Hope Air Serbia and Croatia Airlines can use the situation and help the passengers get from A to B.
Cheers people and to our Muslim compatriots: Ramadan kareem :)
But if the world wants fast and affordable, it is not smart to insist on over quality. I get you and understand the German thing, they were the best when world needed the best, now it's different and they're trying to cope with the change. And the change in business and work can't be easy for Germans...
DeleteThis discussion is rather drifting in an off topic area, but since you compare how it used to be and how it is alledgedly now:
Deletein the past, it made sense to work hard, as you could achieve a particular standard, or, you could even afford to buy some real-estate from your work.
Now, this is hardly possilble for any middle-class person, so no wonder that most do work- to-rule and also the social discrepancies are so high as almost never: few earn millions (e.g. Lufthansa´s CEO, vs ground crew who have to go on strike to even get their inflation balance raise.
So, there you have it-in the region we say: koliko para toliko muzike.
JU can send the A330 to cash in!
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