{"id":30680,"date":"2016-11-29T03:11:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T03:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/some-1-700-flights-cancelled-as-lufthansa-pilots\/"},"modified":"2016-11-29T03:06:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T03:06:52","slug":"some-1-700-flights-cancelled-as-lufthansa-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/some-1-700-flights-cancelled-as-lufthansa-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Some 1,700 flights cancelled as Lufthansa pilots strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The German airline slashes hundreds of flights after failing to block latest strike with temporary court injunction.}<\/p>\n<p>Lufthansa will cancel more than 1,700 flights scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday owing to a fresh strike by pilots in a long-running dispute about pay as a union representing the German airline&#8217;s pilots resumes a campaign of strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The Cockpit union has called out members scheduled to fly short-haul routes from Germany on Tuesday and is adding long-haul routes to the walkout on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lufthansa says it&#8217;s scrapping 816 flights on Tuesday and another 890 on Wednesday, affecting around 82,000 and 98,000 passengers respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Cockpit&#8217;s latest walkout follows four consecutive days of strikes from Wednesday to Saturday last week. It is part of a pay dispute that has festered for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2,800 flights were cancelled in last week&#8217;s walkout, the 14th strike in a pay dispute that since early 2014 has cost the carrier hundreds of millions of dollars. <\/p>\n<p>Lufthansa sought an injunction on Monday from a Munich labour court halting Tuesday&#8217;s walkout but the court refused to grant it.<\/p>\n<p>The airline also failed to convince two Frankfurt courts to halt last week&#8217;s strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Lufthansa said it was &#8220;examining further possible legal steps&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16706 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dde44e5bf2dc4f96ae0ab3ff3ea6927c_18.jpg\" alt=\"The latest strike will affect at least 1,700 Lufthansa flights \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The German airline slashes hundreds of flights after failing to block latest strike with temporary court injunction.} Lufthansa will cancel more than 1,700 flights scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday owing to a fresh strike by pilots in a long-running dispute about pay as a union representing the German airline&#8217;s pilots resumes a campaign of strikes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30680"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30680"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}