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Lufthansa said Tuesday it hoped to have flights back to normal by the end of the week after agreeing to talks with pilots that ended a costly and damaging strike at Europe’s biggest airline. The German group agreed late Monday to resume negotiations with the Cockpit union, which represents 4,000 pilots, stopping a strike that was due to last four days and cost the firm up to 100 million euros.
Talks began "immediately," Lufthansa spokesman Klaus Walther told German television station ZDF. But "it will take some time to get the whole network functioning again," Walther added. "Our goal is to have the network running at 100 percent by Friday at the latest."
Lufthansa, which normally offers 1,800 flights daily, had scrubbed 800 as a preventive measure ahead of the strike. This special schedule was also in force Tuesday. With the industrial action by pilots on the backburner, the airline must now deal with a strike threat issued by cabin crew representatives on Monday. A wage contract between the German flag carrier and cabin crew expires on February 28, but management has failed to make a new offer and is refusing to hold talks, UFO union spokesman Nicoley Baublies said Monday.
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