BERLIN—Germany’s largest airline, Lufthansa, cancelled 830 short- and medium-haul flights on Friday affecting 100,000 passengers after a pilots’ strike entered its third day in a long-running dispute over wages. The carrier also announced the cancellation of another 137 long-haul flights scheduled for Saturday, affecting 30,000 more passengers. Since the strikes started on Wednesday the airline has had to cancel 2,863 flights, affecting 345,000 passengers. It said most of its flights will be operating Saturday, and that other airlines in its group are not affected. The strikes called by the Cockpit union are their 14th since April 2014.

Source: thestar November 25, 2016 13:31 UTC