Lufthansa has cancelled 800 flights because of strike of pilots

The German airline of Lufthansa has cancelled on Monday, on February, 22nd, about 800 flights because of the beginning of four-day strike of pilots, informs Associated Press. The number of the cancelled flights makes about half from all flights of Lufthansa planned on this day.

Flights in the USA are cancelled...

Basically distant flights — from Germany in different cities of the USA, including to New York and Chicago have been cancelled. The schedule of internal flights and flights in the European countries practically has not undergone to change. At the same time in the company do not exclude, that to the schedule of flights can make amendments within day.

In particular, pilots do not accept how Lufthansa treats the German law on the minimum wage rate. Trying to reduce costs, the airline tries to employ more often pilots from those countries where the minimum salary much more low, than in Germany, or in general is not regulated in any way.

The most scale strike of aviadispatchers

Protest action has concerned both passenger transportations of Lufthansa, and cargo division of the company and the budgetary air carrier Germanwings belonging to one of the airlines largest in Europe. Strike became the most scale for Lufthansa for last 10 years.