Arbitration for LH cabin crew

Business travellers should now be able to book Lufthansa with the confidence that the flight will take place. 

The airline and its passengers suffered much disruption in the latter part of last year due to various industrial actions.

Lufthansa and its main cabin crew union have agreed preliminary deals on pay and pensions and have come up with a mediation scheme for other areas of dispute that will see cabin crew strikes ruled out until the end of June.  This does not however include the airline pilots union who are still under a strike ban.

Lufthansa and the cabin crew union UFO have been at loggerheads over a range of issues from pay, pensions, conditions and early retirement benefits.  This culminated in November when the union staged the longest strike in the carrier's history.

Lufthansa is trying to cut costs as it battles to compete with low-cost rivals in Europe on short-haul routes and fast-growing Gulf carriers on long-haul flights, but has met opposition from unions.

A few details on pensions still remain to be negotiated, which Lufthansa and UFO will try to agree by 15 February. Failing to do so, they will be discussed in mediation, along with a new pay deal for the period from 1 October2016.   www.lufthansa.com

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