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Posted by: Mazur Rodica

News / International

07 Nov. 2019 / 09:43

Thousands of passengers have their flights cancelled in a city in Germany

Tens of thousands of passengers booked to fly on Lufthansa on Thursday and Friday are now finding out whether their flights will be cancelled because of a strike by cabin crew, independent.co reports.

Members of the Independent Flight Attendants’ Organisation (UFO) will stop work for 48 hours on 7 and 8 November in a dispute over pay and conditions.

The German airline unsuccessfully challenged the strike call in court on Wednesday morning.

It has now said that it will cancel 700 flights on Thursday and 600 on Friday, affecting a total of 180,000 passengers.

The cancellations represent 22 per cent of the Lufthansa Group schedule on the two days. Most of the group’s subsidiaries – including Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings and Swiss – are not involved in the industrial action.

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