The Lufthansa pilots' strike continues for a fourth successive day.
Today, Saturday 21 March, it's once again the turn on Lufthansa's long haul flights to be affected.
Despite the action, the airline forecasts that up to half of its long haul services will operate today, along with up to 40% of its cargo flights.
To read more about this ongoing dispute click here.
The strike by Lufthansa pilots originally scheduled to take place only on Wednesday & Thursday this week has now been extended to include tomorrow, Friday.
On Wednesday short and medium haul flights were affected, and today long haul.
Friday's action is again to affect short and medium haul.
The action results from an ongoing dispute over retirement benefits.
For latest updates on which flights are affected and the options available to you if you'd booked a flight click here.
The saga of strikes by pilots employed by German airline Lufthansa that cost the company 232m Euros in 2014 has now continued into 2015
Today (Wednesday) the pilots' union Vereinigung is striking affecting Lufthansa's short and medium haul routes only.
Tomorrow the action continues and will affect long haul routes only.
The airlines says that affected passengers can either rebook their flight without charge or obtain a refund.
For latest information on the industrial action click here.
The Air France KLM group has just posted its 2014 financial results that reflect the costs of last year's repeated pilots strikes.
The figures show the strike cost the company around 425m Euros in profit, and indicate that but for the disruption it would have achieved a significantly improved result for the year over 2013.
Despite the strike passenger numbers increased by 1.3% over the year, and the company achieved a modest reduction in costs.
To read more click here.
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The Lufthansa pilots strike is affecting both short and medium haul services on Monday and Tuesday this week.
A special timetable to operate over the strike period has now been published by the company.
Good news - the pilot's strike at Air France was called off on Sunday.
Air France state that it is likely to take 2 - 3 days for their normal schedules to resume due to the need to ensure that flight crew are in the correct locations, and that mandatory aircraft safety checks are completed.
They say that flights already notified as cancelled for today, Monday 29th, will remain cancelled, and that last minute changes and disruptions are still likely in the short term.
Click here to read the full press release issued on Sunday
Good news! There appears to be some progress in the 10 day dispute between the airline Air France and its pilots. According to reports up to half of scheduled flights have been affected
In a press release on the Air France website, the airline has set out a new proposal to the striking pilots to attempt to resolve the dispute.
Let's hope that all involved are able to agree and that things can quickly return to normal.
