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Baku-Frankfurt flight delays due to pilots strike

22 February 2010 13:59 (UTC +04:00)

Frankfurt-Baku-Frankfurt flight will not be realized because of the strike on February 24.

Lufthansa Baku office told APA that already purchased tickets for Frankfurt-Baku-Frankfurt flight delayed due to the walkout of pilots, can be returned and those people can realize their flights with outer airway companies. The estimated time of restore in flights is February 26.

Air travellers braced for chaos Monday as pilots for Lufthansa, Europeâ€™s largest airline, began a four-day walkout that was expected to force the cancellation of thousands of flights.
The German flag carrier was operating a sharply reduced schedule that involved scrubbing roughly 800 out of 1,800 scheduled flights per day for the duration of the strike.
The Cockpit Association union, which represents about 4,500 pilots at Lufthansa and its subsidiaries â€” Lufthansa Cargo and Germanwings, a no-frills carrier â€” voted last week to strike after failing to secure guarantees from the airline that it would not seek to migrate cockpit jobs to the companyâ€™s foreign subsidiaries such as Austrian Airlines and British Midland, which pay their flight crews less.

Lufthansa argues that the number of its pilots in Germany has increased by 20 percent since 2001, due to the expansion of its network through acquisitions and new airline partnerships. The airline last week offered pilots assurances that their jobs would be secure through at least 2012.