Lufthansa pilots’ strike continues

On Friday, German airline Lufthansa cancelled 25 flights between Poland and Germany, including 14 to Frederic Chopin Airport in Warsaw, the Polish press reported. Thus far, the three-day strike has affected some 315,000 passengers. The strike centers on the union’s demand to increase salaries by 22 percent over a 5-year period. Management claims that the pilots’ demands are impossible to meet, and has offered increases of 2.5 percent during the period 2016 to 2018. The pilots’ trade union announced on Friday that the strike would continue through Saturday and would affect all of the airline’s international flights, the press report stated.