Off the wire
• 1st Ld Writethru: Explosions hit gov't office in Myanmar  • SPP investigates fatal power plant accident  • 1st LD Writethru: China releases revised radio operation management rules  • No evidence linking attack at retirement home to terrorism: prosecutor  • 1,638 women murdered in Turkey in 6 years  • CEO of China's Founder Group fined 108 mln USD for insider trading  • Greece pledges to improve conditions in migrant camps after 2 deaths  • Number of arrested refugees in Bulgaria exceeds 400  • Labour peer dies after mobility scooter crash outside British parliament  • 3rd LD: At least 36 killed in train collision in northern Iran  
You are here: 　 Home

Lufthansa cancels over 130 flights for Saturday due to extended strike

Xinhua, November 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

Germany's largest airline company Lufthansa released on its website on Friday the flight schedule for Saturday, saying 137 flights would be canceled due to the extended pilots' strike which will affect another 30,000 passengers.

The pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) announced Thursday it was extending its strike further to Saturday, with the total number of affected passengers climbing to 345,000 due to the cancellation of 2,755 flights by Lufthansa over the four strike days.

The strike began on Wednesday.

The company said that sub-brands of Lufthansa Group including Eurowings, Germanwings, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Air Dolomiti and Brussels Airlines would operate as planned, and that the pilots of Lufthansa Cargo had not called a strike. Endit