Munich (dpa / lby) – The pilots’ strike at the airline Eurowings also hit Munich Airport on Monday. In the morning, the airport reported 11 departures and 9 arrivals with the company as canceled on its website. Two were still stated as planned. No failures were reported in the morning at Nuremberg Airport, where according to the flight plan there should be two take-offs and landings by Eurowings on Monday.
Six take-offs and six landings by the company Eurowings Discover from Munich were not affected. The airport reported no failures here. The company is also not affected by the strike call.
Eurowings pilots went on a three-day strike on Monday morning. The pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) justified the strike with an insufficient offer from the employers’ side for the collective wage agreement. She wants to push through better working conditions for the pilots in industrial action.
Eurowings criticized the strike as disproportionate and irresponsible. The company expects to be able to carry out more than half of the planned flight program despite the industrial action. In the course of Monday, a replacement flight plan for the following days should be published.
It is the second time in less than 14 days that pilots at the Lufthansa subsidiary have stopped working. During the first strike on October 6, around half of all flights in the company’s network were canceled. Tens of thousands of passengers therefore had to switch to other flights or the train – or postpone their journey.
