Strikes affecting Belgian airports in 2014-2015

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Lufthansa cabin crew negotiations fail, strike possible

Lufthansa’s flight attendant union, UFO, has announced the latest round of talks between the airline and cabin crew workers have failed, and further strike actions could be possible.

UFO, rejecting Lufthansa’s latest offer, said in a statement that elementary points such as job security were missing and negotiations “failed completely.”

UFO represents around 19,000 flight attendants. It said that further negotiations with Lufthansa are impossible and the aim of reaching an agreement by Nov. 1 will not occur.

According to several media reports, Lufthansa’s offer, presented Oct. 19, allows for cabin crew members to stop working when they reach 55 years of age, but said they could receive significantly higher pensions if they stayed on the job until the age of 65. In addition, all cabin crew would receive a one-time payment of €2,000 each, and those who had been with the company since 2012 would also get wage increases of 1.7% in 2016 and again in 2017.

Source: ATWonline

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Some unions of Air France ground staff will be on strike on 22 October. Air France hopes to maintain all of its 994 daily flights, but some of them might be delayed.

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In the endless series of strikes...

Air travel to and from Italy will be heavily affected as air traffic controllers plan to go on an eight-hour strike on Oct. 24.

The strike, called by the pilots and air traffic controllers union, Associazione Nazionale Professionale Aviazione Civile (ANPAC), is planned from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time.

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Passengers travelling with Lufthansa face disruption after cabin crew threatened a week of strikes starting Friday (November 6).
The UFO union said action will run until November 13 unless a fresh set of demands on retirement and pension benefits is met.
Head of the union Nicoley Baublies said Lufthansa has until 1600 on Thursday to respond to a list of demands.
"All passengers are advised to assume that their flights will not take off," the union head said.
Strikes this year have so far cost Lufthansa around €130 million.

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German cabin crew union UFO said it would publish details on its planned strike at airline Lufthansa on Friday morning, after last-ditch talks failed on Thursday.
"There is no option anymore to avert tomorrow's strike," Nicoley Baublies, head of the UFO union, said in a statement on Thursday. UFO said it would not stage a strike before noon on Friday.

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The Lufthnasa flight attendants' union UFO initial stoppage began at 1300 GMT on Friday and affected flights to and from the airports of Frankfurt and Düsseldorf.

The union announced a second, much-longer walkout on Saturday to turn the heat up on management.Saturday's stoppage would also hit Frankfurt and Düsseldorf and would begin at 0500 GMT and last until 2200 GMT, UFO said.

"No industrial action is planned at all on Sunday since most people travelling that day will be doing so in a private capacity," UFO said.

UFO plans to stagger the walkouts and target different airports over the course of the next seven days.

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After a strike-free Sunday, the cabin crew union UFO is set to continue and extend its strike on Monday.
According to the union, the strike of the Lufthansa flight attendants will continue at Frankfurt airport and Düsseldorf. The strike will also extend to Munich, an airport that was not affected by strikes on Friday and Saturday.

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After a strike-free Sunday, the cabin crew union UFO is set to continue and extend its strike on Monday.
According to the union, the strike of the Lufthansa flight attendants will continue at Frankfurt airport and Düsseldorf. The strike will also extend to Munich, an airport that was not affected by strikes on Friday and Saturday.

On Monday, out of the approximately 3.000 planned connections about 929 continental and intercontinental flights had to be cancelled. Affected by these cancellations are in total approximately 113.000 passengers.

Lufthansa did publish a special timetable. Nearly all continental and intercontinental flights had to be cancelled. Exceptions are a few flights between Munich and Frankfurt to London Heathrow, Dublin, Ashgabat, Delhi, Hongkong and Tokio.

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Lufthansa : the UFO union called on cabin crews to stage another day of strikes on Tuesday.
At Frankfurt and Munich, the strike will be only on the long-haul flights. At Düsseldorf, also the short- and medium-haul.

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Effect of the LH Flight attendants strike on Brussels Airport (that's indeed the title of this topic): today all the flights to/from Frankfurt and most flights to/from Munich (except one flight operated by Air Dolomiti) were cancelled. If Lufthansa had allowed SN to operate some of those flights, the effects of the strike would have been lessened... A monopoly is never good!

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If Lufthansa had allowed SN to operate some of those flights, the effects of the strike would have been lessened... A monopoly is never good!

SN has Berlin, Hamburg and Hannover, now Bremen...I assume it is less costly to have only one operator for each destination. However, in case of a strike (or other problem) no flexibility...
If the LH people go on multiplying their strikes, the concept might be worth revisiting!

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German cabin crew union UFO rejected a sweetened Lufthansa pay offer late on Monday that was aimed at ending the airline's longest ever strike action that it said was costing it at least 10 million euros a day.

Lufthansa tried to win over striking cabin crew staff by increasing a one-off payment offer by 1,000 euros to 3,000 euros and promising a 1.7 percent pay rise next year and in 2017.

The union rejected the offer, saying it would go ahead with further strike action as planned for Tuesday which is set to affect more lucrative long-haul flights. Cancellations could continue until Friday.

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The Independent Flight Attendant’s Organization (UFO) has announced further strike action from Wednesday, 11.11.2015 until Friday, 13.11.2015 between 4.00 and 23.59 on all flights from/ to Frankfurt, Munich and Dusseldorf.

Flights from Lufthansa Group airlines Lufthansa CityLine, Germanwings, Eurowings, Air Dolomiti, Austrian Airlines, SWISS and Brussels Airlines are not affected by the strike actions and will therefore operate as planned.

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The Independent Flight Attendant’s Organization (UFO) has announced further strike action from Wednesday, 11.11.2015 until Friday, 13.11.2015 between 4.00 and 23.59 on all flights from/ to Frankfurt, Munich and Dusseldorf.

Flights from Lufthansa Group airlines Lufthansa CityLine, Germanwings, Eurowings, Air Dolomiti, Austrian Airlines, SWISS and Brussels Airlines are not affected by the strike actions and will therefore operate as planned.

As a result in Brussels, all flights to/from FRA are cancelled during those three days. As for MUC, a few flights operated by E195 remain scheduled, whereas the flights operated by A32S are cancelled.

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Another Lufthansa strike?

Lufthansa faces new strikes starting Thursday

The troubled airline Lufthansa is facing a new round of strikes, after air crew union UFO told its members to head for the pickets on Thursday and Friday.

The strike is set to carry on into Monday of the following week if Lufthansa fails to appropriately respond to the union's demands, said UFO chief Nicoley Baublies in Frankfurt on Monday.

Germany’s largest air carrier faced the longest strike in its history earlier in November when UFO called a week-long strike which affected hundreds of thousands of passengers.

The dispute is over pay and early retirement provisions and dates back to December 2013, when the company decided to embark on cost cuts in the face of intense competition from low-cost carriers.

The union is demanding that the current system of early retirement provisions remain unchanged, but Lufthansa has argued that those measures are too expensive.

Lufthansa CEO Carsten Sphor is attempting to radically overhaul the carrier as it faces competition from low cost air lines such as Easy Jet and Ryanair.

A priority is building up the low cost sister airline Eurowings and downscaling Lufthansa's work force.

Lufthansa pilots have also been hit by the cost saving strategy and have so far gone on strike 13 times.

Source: thelocal.de

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Une grève de cinq jours débute ce lundi matin dans le centre du contrôle aérien de Reims (France).

http://www.air-journal.fr/2015-11-23-gr ... 53947.html

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Another Lufthansa strike?

Lufthansa faces new strikes starting Thursday

The troubled airline Lufthansa is facing a new round of strikes, after air crew union UFO told its members to head for the pickets on Thursday and Friday. The strike is set to carry on into Monday of the following week if Lufthansa fails to appropriately respond to the union's demands, said UFO chief Nicoley Baublies in Frankfurt on Monday. Germany’s largest air carrier faced the longest strike in its history earlier in November when UFO called a week-long strike which affected hundreds of thousands of passengers. The dispute is over pay and early retirement provisions and dates back to December 2013, when the company decided to embark on cost cuts in the face of intense competition from low-cost carriers. The union is demanding that the current system of early retirement provisions remain unchanged, but Lufthansa has argued that those measures are too expensive. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Sphor is attempting to radically overhaul the carrier as it faces competition from low cost air lines such as Easy Jet and Ryanair. A priority is building up the low cost sister airline Eurowings and downscaling Lufthansa's work force. Lufthansa pilots have also been hit by the cost saving strategy and have so far gone on strike 13 times.
Source: thelocal.de

The above strike for Thursday/Friday has been called off.

Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine:
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/s ... 31068.html

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Lufthansa and its trade union Verdi have reached an agreement for the 33.000 ground staff.

English: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines_press_r ... uneration/

German: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/s ... 37434.html

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Some of the pilots and ground personnel of Air France will strike on 2 and 3 December, in a protest about the lay-off of the staff who participated in the aggression against the Director of HR on 5 October.

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The two large trade unions at Belgian Rail have announced two strikes (*) in January 2016:
6+7 January 2016
21 + 22 + 23 January 2016

Thus probably no trains to Brussels Airport during those 5 days.

(*) I don't mention the reason because there isn't. They just want to strike.