Austrian Airlines cancels 150 flights scheduled for Friday
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- DPA
- Published Date: 12:54 | 06 March 2024
- Modified Date: 12:59 | 06 March 2024
Although the works council of on-board staff, a body representing employee's interests, and the trade union have postponed their meeting indefinitely, the airline had to stick to the planned cancellations for logistical reasons, a company spokeswoman said.
The cancellations will affect around 12,800 passengers, who have already been informed of the outages.
In total, the airline - a subsidiary of German carrier Lufthansa - had around 300 flights planned on Friday.
A week ago Friday, almost 140 flights were cancelled at Austrian Airlines due to another such meeting and a spontaneous strike action.
The meetings were called to discuss stalled talks on a collective bargaining agreement for a total of 3,500 cabin and cockpit crew members.
After a good economic year for the aviation industry, the Vida union is demanding that employees also benefit in the form of salary increases.
Austrian Airlines said the company had offered a salary increase of 4.5% and was discussing one-off payments and better profit-sharing.
"The works council and the Vida union should not cause more damage, but rather find common solutions at the negotiating table," the company spokeswoman said.
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