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Lufthansa Counters Cabin Staff Unrest &Cancels 290 Flights

(Germany,Frankfurt)Lufthansa Counters Staff Unrest By Cancelling 290 Flights Which Would Hit More then 37 Thousand Flyers
German airline Lufthansa said it will cancel 290 flights today, the first day of a planned week of walkouts by cabin staff in a long-running dispute over cost-saving measures.
Some 37,500 passengers would be hit by the nine-hour strike scheduled to begin at 0630 GMT and affecting the Frankfurt and Duesseldorf airports,
Lufthansa subsidiaries Germanwings, Eurowings, Lufthansa CityLine, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Air Dolomiti and Brussels Airlines were expressly not targeted by the industrial action.
Lufthansa said it “regretted” the decision by the flight attendants’ union UFO to stage a walkout between 0630 GMT and 2200 GMT at the Frankfurt and Duesseldorf airports.
It apologised to passengers, but said the short notice of the strikes made it difficult to inform passengers in time and enable them to make alternative travel arrangements.
The union plans to stagger the walkouts and target different airports over the course of the next seven days, with a repeat of the stoppages planned in Frankfurt and Duesseldorf