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Lufthansa cancels 500 flights in anticipation of labor strike Thursday
TransportDeutsche Lufthansa AG scrapped most short-haul flights and some inter-continental services scheduled for tomorrow morning as cabin crew and ground personnel prepare to strike over pay. Lufthansa staff in Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Cologne and Berlin are being encouraged to walk out as the Ver. di union seeks a 5.2 percent pay boost and more [...]
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Iberia’s second round of strikes begin as Spain’s tourism industry in turmoil
TransportWorkers at Spain’s Iberia were set to ground nearly 1,300 flights in a second round of five-day strikes launched on Monday to protest against deep job and wage cuts at the loss-making airline. Iberia is part of the International Airlines Group, which last week pledged to press ahead with plans to slash 3,800, or 19 [...]
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Iberia’s largest labor strike slashes daily flights by 40 percent
TransportIberia, the Spanish unit of British Airways owner IAG, slashed almost 40 percent of its scheduled timetable as 18,500 staff began the carrier’s biggest-ever strike. Remaining flights are operating as planned, it said. Some 54 of 135 services still due today had left by 11 a.m., Madrid-based Iberia said in a statement. While 415 flights [...]
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Labor strike strands thousands of passengers at two German airports
TransportThousands of travelers faced a second day of disruption at German airports as a strike by security guards over pay continued on Friday, causing more than 100 flight cancellations. In addition, Berlin’s Schoenefeld airport said it had suspended all arrivals and departures until 8 a.m. ET after a small private plane ran off the runway [...]
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Iberia confirms labor strike dates throughout February and March
TransportGround staff and cabin crew at the Spanish airline Iberia are planning strikes on 15 days during three separate periods of February and March. Unions representing airline employees announced that industrial action will take place from February 18 to 22, March 4 to 8 and March 18 to 22. They are protesting against plans to [...]
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Iberia’s unions plan to strike following failed talks with management
TransportSpanish airline Iberia faces a call for strike action next month after a breakdown in talks between unions and management at the British Airways sister company. The failure of talks involving Iberia and six major labor groups “poses a serious threat to the company, to Spanish institutions and to the tourism industry,” Manuel Atienza, a [...]
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Employees strike at Spanish castles-turned-hotels to protest closures and job cuts
DestinationsEmployees of Spain’s premium hotel chain Parador, a state-run group that uses castles, monasteries and palaces, are holding a two-day strike to protest job cuts and possible closures. The Parador hotels group, which started in 1928, says a drop in demand could leave it with accumulated losses of €107 million ($140 million) by the end [...]
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Profits are up at U.S. airlines, which means labor contract renewals will become interesting
TransportPilots at United Airlines and American Airlines are due to vote in coming weeks on new labor contracts that in some cases offer the first significant raises in almost a decade. The pay gains reflect better financial times at airlines, and partially offset years of concessions the pilots made as airlines went through bankruptcies and [...]
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US Airways flight attendants are picketing at airports across the country today
TransportU.S., Nov. 13 — US Airways Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), will march on informational picket lines at four airports across the country on Wednesday, November 14. Management has failed to negotiate an …
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Striking Air France workers clash with cops, but schedules back to normal
TransportSeveral hundred striking Air France workers have clashed with police during a demonstration inside Paris’ Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport. The protesters and police scuffled in one of the airport’s departure halls Saturday, knocking over planters and surprising travelers waiting for flights. The terminal was crowded because it is the start of a nationwide two-week school [...]
