{"id":1006,"date":"2013-04-22T15:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T11:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ankakh.am\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2013-04-22T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T11:05:33","slug":"lufthansa-cancels-almost-all-flights-due-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa cancels almost all flights due to strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lufthansa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1004\" alt=\"Lufthansa\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lufthansa.jpg\" width=\"251\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>German airline Lufthansa said Monday it has cancelled most of its domestic, European and long-haul flights at six German airports due to strike action by ground personnel and some cabin crew.<\/p>\n<p>Out of nearly 1,800 planned flights on Monday, &#8220;we will operate 20 short and medium-range flights and 12 long-distance services,&#8221; a spokesman told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Services union Verdi called the strike after three rounds of pay talks with management ended without any agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Verdi is demanding a 5.2-percent pay increase for 33,000 Lufthansa ground staff, plus employees of various subsidiaries as well as cabin crew members who are Verdi members.<\/p>\n<p>The escalating pay dispute threatens to cause transport chaos across Europe&#8217;s top economy and comes a month after Lufthansa was forced to cancel nearly 700 out of a total 1,800 flights due to half a day of warning strikes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German airline Lufthansa said Monday it has cancelled most of its domestic, European and long-haul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}