European airlines face month of disruption

Cabin crew at British Airways are ready to go on strike for four days from the 27 March 2010, having finished a three-day strike on the 22 March 2010, while pilots at Lufthansa announced they would resume industrial action from 13 April 2010 in one of the most acrimonious disputes Germany has seen in recent years.

Alitalia was forced on the 22 March 2010 to reschedule dozens of flights after workers from Italy’s leading union staged a four-hour nationwide strike that affected Rome‘s Fiumicino and Milan’s Linate airports.

Deutsche Welle, 24.3.10: Lufthansa cabin crews may join pilots in new strike http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5384770,00.html

BBC News, 7.4.10: Lufthansa pilots call off strike http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8608428.stm

BBC News, 7.4.10: BA strike: talks between airline and union resume http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8607565.stm

ESO: Background information: Looming strikes pile pressure on airlines http://www.europeansources.info/record/lufthansa-seeks-injuction-against-strike-looming-strikes-pile-pressure-on-airlines/

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