Rolling Traveler

If you have any flights booked with Germany’s Lufthansa, keep your eye on the news over the coming weeks, as the airline is having to cancel flights due to industrial action. Pilots for the Lufthansa subsidiaries Eurowings and CityLines went on strike on Tuesday, and will stay out until midnight today, forcing the airline to cancel around a thousand domestic and short-haul flights. Long-haul flights were not affected this week, but there is still a threat of further and larger walk-outs: Friday will bring the results of a strike ballot being held by a second union, ver.di, which represents around 50,000 ground and cabin crew members.

Lufthansa tried to get passengers onto other flights in the case of short-haul international flights that were affected, and people who had tickets for domestic flights were able to exchange them for rail tickets. The Current Travel Information section of the airline’s website (www.lufthansa.com) has the most current information on flight cancellations and who affected passengers should contact. The link to this section is on the home page, bottom center.

I will do my best to keep you posted on further developments here, but the Lufthansa web site is probably the best one to watch. Fingers crossed that the matter is resolved quickly and satisfactorily.

Derek.

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