Lufthansa Cargo plays down effect of strike

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Lufthansa today cancelled some 600 flights as one of Germany’s strongest unions, Verdi, downed tools, giving the airline just 36 hours’ notice. Verdi represents Lufthansa’s ground staff, and some 32,000 were expected to join the action.

Lufthansa Cargo said that freight operations were only minimally disrupted, with freighter operations continuing and most long haul flights operating normally.

Lufthansa has faced a series of strikes already this year. “We are becoming like France,” one German moaned to The Loadstar. “The strikes keep happening.”

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