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Lufthansa Airlines pilots have embarked a two-day strike to demand 22 per cent pay increase, the airline confirmed to newsmen on Wednesday.
About 876 flights were expected to be cancelled on Wednesday, while emergency flight plan was still to be drawn up for Thursday’s annulled flights.
The airline expected 100,000 passengers to be affected by the strike, which is the 14th by pilots since pay negotiations stalled in 2014.
The pilot organisation Vereinigung Cockpit, announced the strike on Monday as Lufthansa did not succeed in stopping the action at a court in Frankfurt on Tuesday.
According to Germany’s airport association ADV, millions of dollars would be lost as a result of the strike action.
On Tuesday, flight attendants from Lufthansa’s subsidiary Eurowings also stopped work at Hamburg and Dusseldorf airports.
Over 4,100 passengers were affected by that action.