Lufthansa Strike Sees UK Flights Cancelled

Lufthansa staff have gone on strike over a pay dispute, forcing the company to cancel the majority of its scheduled flights.

Around 100 flights - including departures and arrivals - have been cancelled at airports in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dublin.

Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf and Hamburg airports have also been hit by the strike, which started early on Monday morning.

Only about 20 of more than 1,650 scheduled short-haul flights are expected to go ahead as result of the day-long industrial action.

Lufthansa's chief personnel officer, Stefan Lauer, estimated that around 150,000 passengers would be affected.

Lufthansa is Germany's biggest airline

"This time it is a strike ... with a massive impact, completely excessive, that has only one aim - to position itself as a union at Lufthansa against many other unions and groups," he told German television channel ARD.

Germany's largest airline said those hit by the cancellations can re-book their flights at no extra charge.

The ver.di trade union announced the "warning strike" - which is often used by German unions to increase pressure in wage talks - on Friday.

It comes after the airline rejected the union's demand for job guarantees and wage increases of 5.2% over the next year.

Lufthansa is attempting to cut costs to cope with high fuel prices and increasing competition from budget airlines and Gulf operators like Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways.

Last year, the airline and a union representing cabin crews went to arbitration to settle a pay dispute after the union staged a series of short-term stoppages that caused numerous flight cancellations.

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