The first big wave of travel in the current autumn holidays has passed, but quite a few families wanted to go on a short vacation on Monday – but if this is planned with a Eurowings flight, it will be difficult. Because the pilots’ association Cockpit has again called for a strike at the Lufthansa subsidiary, numerous Eurowings customers could also be affected in Hamburg at the beginning of the week. According to the flight plan, 47 Eurowings aircraft are to take off from Hamburg Airport on Monday alone and just as many are to land at the airport, as the airport website revealed on Saturday.
The Cockpit Association had called on the Eurowings pilots to lay down their work from Monday 00.00 a.m. to Wednesday (19 October). The reason is the insufficient offer from the employer side for the collective agreement, as the union explained on Friday evening in Frankfurt.
The airline Eurowings sees the announced pilot strikes as a threat to jobs at the Lufthansa subsidiary. The union is thus inevitably forcing Eurowings into a contraction of German flight operations and jeopardizing jobs – not only in the cockpit, said Eurowings Managing Director Kai Duve on Saturday. “We are doing everything in our power to minimize the impact of this strike, including rebooking on Lufthansa Group partner airlines.”
The pilots had already struck Eurowings flight operations in a first wave on October 6 and canceled around half of the planned flights. On average, the Lufthansa subsidiary operates around 500 flights to destinations in Germany and Europe every day. As a result, tens of thousands of passengers had to switch to other flights or the train – or postpone their journey.
The union is in the dispute about reducing the workload of employees in the cockpit.
