Daniel Flohr
Airline crew go strike in Germany
Employees of Germanwings – a budget airline fully owned by Lufthansa – went for a three-day strike from December 30, over deadlock in a collective bargaining dispute with the management
Lufthansa flight attendants on 48-hour strike after favorable court ruling
The strike is an outcome of a long-standing dispute with the airlines management, which has yet to heed the employees’ calls for better timetables and work hours
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