Airlines
Lufthansa Faces Summer of Strikes by Cabin Crew
Union gives airline until June 30 to agree to accept terms of previous agreement
Lufthansa could again see strikes disrupt operations during its busy summer travel season. (Photo: Lufthansa)
Lufthansa could again see strikes disrupt operations during its busy summer travel season. (Photo: Lufthansa)

Lufthansa Airlines faces as many as two and a half months of strikes by its flight attendants after management and the UFO cabin crew union failed to reach a settlement over pay and retirement benefits. The union has set a deadline of June 30 to reach a pact before limited strike action begins on July 1. Lufthansa and the UFO reached an agreement in January to enter arbitration over the airline’s effort to institute cost-cutting measures. Last weekend the two arbitrators, Herta Däubler-Gmelin and Friedrich Merz, could not recommend a final settlement “due to the fundamentally different positions of Lufthansa and UFO.”


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