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

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

The strike followed a stalemate over the workers’ long-standing demand for a pay rise to a minimum of 20 euros per hour. Some of the airports where workers are striking include Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen.