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Lufthansa cancels 290 flights due to cabin crew strike

Xinhua, November 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

German airline Lufthansa said on Friday that it will cancel 290 flights due to a cabin crew strike.

The strike starts at 14:00 on Friday afternoon (1300 GMT) and will last until 23:00 (2200 GMT) at the airports of Frankfurt and Duesseldorf, announced the cabin crew union UFO in a statement.

According to Lufthansa, approximately 10 percent of its planned flights, most of them short-haul flights, will be canceled due to the strike, affecting 37,500 passengers.

Lufthansa and the union are in a dispute over flight attendants' retirement benefits. The latest negotiations broke down on Thursday.

The union threatened to hold the strike until Nov. 13, should Lufthansa not agree to their demands.

Lufthansa was in disputes with different labor unions as the carrier was trying to cut its operating costs in order to compete with budget airlines.

Since April 2014, Lufthansa's pilots have walked out 13 times costing the company over 300 million euros (about 326.3 million U.S. dollars). Over 1,000 Lufthansa flights were canceled in September due to the latest pilots' strike. Endit