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Eurowings strike – 56 flights canceled in Hamburg alone

As part of a Eurowings strike, 30 flights from Hamburg are said to be canceled on Monday.

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Eurowings strike – 56 flights canceled in Hamburg alone

As part of a Eurowings strike, 30 flights from Hamburg are said to be canceled on Monday. 26 planned landings were also canceled, according to the airport's flight plan on Monday morning. 47 departures and landings of Eurowings planes were planned. The strike falls in the middle of the autumn holidays in several northern German states.

The Cockpit Association (VC) had called for the strike. The union is demanding a lighter workload for the pilots employed by the Lufthansa subsidiary. Nationwide, the strike is expected to last from Monday 12:00 a.m. to Wednesday 11:59 p.m. How many flights will be affected on Tuesday and Wednesday should already be foreseeable during the course of Monday.

Overall, the pilots' strike at Eurowings on Monday could affect around 20,000 passengers and paralyze almost half of the flight operations of the low-cost airline. The airline canceled connections early in the morning at Düsseldorf, Cologne, Hamburg and Stuttgart airports. The Lufthansa subsidiary recently assumed that only a good 230 of around 400 planned flights could take place. For Tuesday and Wednesday, Eurowings expects that almost half of the normal flight program will also be canceled.

On Friday, the union called on the pilots to go on a three-day strike in the wage dispute over better working hours and described the offer made by Eurowings as non-negotiable. The VC calls for longer rest periods and shorter missions because the cockpit staff is overworked.

The management had described the demands as excessive. Eurowings Managing Director Kai Duve criticized at the weekend that the union was inevitably forcing Eurowings to shrink German flight operations and jeopardize jobs - not just in the cockpit.

The airline had also emphasized that the relief package offered to pilots before the strike reached the limit of what was economically justifiable. "Accordingly, with its unyielding attitude, VC will not strike out for an even better offer, but with its course will only contribute to renewed customer disappointment and further damage in the millions."

The Eurowings pilots had already stopped work for a day at the beginning of October. The airline had to cancel around 250 flights – around 30,000 passengers were affected.

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