Lufthansa cabin crews go on strike; dozens of flights at Frankfurt airport cancelled
BERLIN - Lufthansa flight attendants are on strike at Germany's busiest airport, causing the cancellation of dozens of flights.
The cabin crews walked off the job early Friday morning at Frankfurt airport in an eight-hour strike that is to last until early afternoon.
The UFO union says it will continue staging short-term strikes until its demands for better pay and conditions for some 18,000 cabin crew at the airline, Germany's largest, are met.
Lufthansa says it has cancelled about a quarter of the 360 flights at the airport that were scheduled during the strike hours, all short and middle-distance routes.
