Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – A number of Eurowings passengers at Stuttgart Airport must expect flight cancellations on Thursday. More than half of the connections are canceled due to a day-long pilots’ strike. Of the 86 take-offs and landings originally planned, 32 remain on schedule. The only Eurowings flight of the day to Mallorca from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport is also cancelled. The airport in Friedrichshafen is not served by Eurowings. Affected passengers will be rebooked or given train tickets.
The background to this is a collective bargaining dispute with the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots’ union. She had announced that the negotiations on the collective bargaining agreement had failed and called on her members to walk out. The union is about better working conditions. Eurowings criticized the strike as disproportionate and irresponsible.
