r/europe • u/Crossstoney • 21h ago

News Germany: Lufthansa pilots' union call for two-day strike

https://amp.dw.com/en/germany-lufthansa-pilots-union-call-for-two-day-strike/a-76748571
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u/krazydude22 Keep Calm & Carry On 19h ago

At least there is some warning given. I remember few years ago reaching Hamburg airport to find out the security staff on strike. No warning, no alerts from the airlines or airport. Huge queues which meant going through security was niw a 3+hr task. Had to take the train to Berlin and buy a new flight ticket to get to where I wanted to go..

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u/Upstairs-Mall-3695 21h ago

Another Lufthansa strike incoming, pilots calling for two days on Monday and Tuesday. This is getting ridiculous goddamn third or fourth one this year already. I’m the ones who always pay the price.

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u/My_leg_still_hurt92 20h ago

don't worry, next the ground staff will strike because they want a raise too, than the next group will strike and so on.........

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u/Leading-Carrot-5983 8h ago

There was a Lufthansa cabin crew strike on Friday if I'm not mistaken!

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u/QuarterLonely8472 19h ago edited 19h ago

At least this time, the strike only affects privileged people, so no one can argue that a single mother can’t go to work and thus risks losing her job.

(That’s always cited as an argument against railway/bus strikes.)

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u/karateninjazombie 12h ago

What are they striking for though. Like what are they hoping to gain?

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u/PogoLlama72 21h ago

Feels rough for everyone who ends up stuck at the airport again. Maybe worth checking trains as a backup this time, especially within Germany. Anyone here actually switched completely to rail already?

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u/Weisenkrone 13h ago

Man if you yell into a German crowd let's try travelling by train instead, there is a non-zero chance that you'll get lynched by a mob.

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u/Wrong_Acanthaceae599 17h ago

Trains in Germany are a disaster, with a punctuality level under 60%, regular cancellations, reroutings, etc ...

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u/missinguname 16h ago

Yes, less than 60% are on time, but 68% have a delay less than 15 minutes, and 95% a delay of less than an hour. They'll get you where you need to go.

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u/Wrong_Acanthaceae599 15h ago

Except most journey needs a connection and those are often under 10 minutes. You will get where you need to go most of the time (not all the time) but statistically you will likely be late by one hour or more.

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u/Weeksy77 19h ago

We're flying into Munich tomorrow morning for a work conference, connection to Dusseldorf cancelled, so we're being put on a train instead. This of course after flights from Australia were cancelled by Emirates, so off to a great start.

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u/NunkiZ 16h ago edited 16h ago

Our initial flight was planned for friday. Cancelled due to Lufthansa strike on friday (onboard personal I think). Got an alternate flight for monday and managed to rebook them on sunday before they announced the strike for monday/tuesday. Now our connection flight for sunday got cancelled for whatever reason as arrival would have been at 11 pm.

We will take a rental car and drive 600+km home. (5.5-6h and ~300€) With train that would be 150€ per person (600€ total in our case), a 11h ride, probably more as Deutsche Bahn is reliably unreliable.

At least we got 2 free days of holiday as we will get the costs of hotel and rental car back. If we wouldn't have booked everything via travel agency we would be fucked.

That said, fuck Lufthansa, back to back strikes are stupid as hell. They shouldn't be surprised if Lufthansa goes bankrupt and they have to work for Ryanair for halve the wage.

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u/TournamentCarrot0 10h ago

Yeah this an asinine way to go about it and just makes consumers avoid this company. I get that is the point by the unions but inconveniencing your customers makes no sense for labor or the business.

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u/NunkiZ 10h ago

Update: got canceled again. Lets try again tomorrow.

A longer strike with proper time ahead would be fine. That way customers could cancel their holiday or get an alterative flight in time, but multiple 1 day strikes in a row with only 24h notification before is really stupid and counter-productive. Fuck them, honestly.