The union's 14th strike since April 2014 will affect around 100,000 passengers. Germany's flagship carrier Lufthansa said it would cancel nearly 900 flights on Wednesday because of a strike by pilots, causing travel disruption for tens of thousands of passengers in the latest escalation of a long simmering pay dispute. The stoppage, called by the pilots' union Cockpit, would start at midnight and affect Lufthansa flights at airports across Germany. Out of its roughly 3,000 scheduled flights, 876 would be cancelled due to the strike, "affecting some 100,000 passengers", Lufthansa said in a statement. The Lufthansa pilots going on strike are demanding a pay rise of an average of 3.66 per cent per year, retroactive for the past five years.

Source: dna November 23, 2016 02:45 UTC