https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Cabin crew at four Lufthansa subsidiary airlines staged a day-long strike Sunday, causing dozens of cancellations at German airports in a battle for better pay and conditions. https://www.thelocal.de/20191020/cabin-crew-strike-grounds-flights-across-german-airports Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:06:50 +0200 cabin-crew-strike-grounds-flights-across-german-airports Toys and models manufacturer Revell based in North Rhine-Westphalia has announced that one of their products, an aircraft described as a war machine during the Nazi period, will no longer be produced. https://www.thelocal.de/20180619/toy-nazi-ufo-taken-off-market-after-criticism Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:12:05 +0200 toy-nazi-ufo-taken-off-market-after-criticism German airline Lufthansa on Wednesday said it had offered striking pilots a fresh pay deal in a bid to end a long-running and crippling dispute. https://www.thelocal.de/20161130/lufthansa-offers-pay-deal-to-end-pilots-strike Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:12:34 +0100 lufthansa-offers-pay-deal-to-end-pilots-strike Update: A renewed pilots' strike will ground around 1,700 flights at European aviation giant Lufthansa on Tuesday and Wednesday, the group said, as a long-running and costly battle over pay drags on. https://www.thelocal.de/20161128/lufthansa-pilots-to-strike-tuesday-and-wednesday Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:57:02 +0100 lufthansa-pilots-to-strike-tuesday-and-wednesday Lufthansa and its cabin staff said Thursday they had reached an agreement on working conditions, bringing to an end a long and bitter industrial dispute that hit thousands of passengers. https://www.thelocal.de/20160701/lufthansa-finally-buries-hatchet-with-cabin-staff-strikes Fri, 01 Jul 2016 10:21:42 +0200 lufthansa-finally-buries-hatchet-with-cabin-staff-strikes German carrier Lufthansa, reeling under a series of recent strikes, said on Saturday that it had reached a wage rise accord with services sector union Verdi covering 30,000 ground staff. https://www.thelocal.de/20151129/lufthansa-strikes-pay-deal-with-airport-and-cargo-staff Sun, 29 Nov 2015 09:46:13 +0100 lufthansa-strikes-pay-deal-with-airport-and-cargo-staff Air crew union UFO announced on Wednesday that it has decided to call off a planned strike against Lufthansa, after the airline made significant concessions. https://www.thelocal.de/20151125/lufthansa-air-crews-call-off-strike Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:36:12 +0100 lufthansa-air-crews-call-off-strike The troubled airline Lufthansa is facing a new round of strikes, after air crew union UFO told its members to head for the pickets on Thursday and Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20151123/lufthansa-to-be-hit-by-new-strikes-starting-thursday Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:20:23 +0100 lufthansa-to-be-hit-by-new-strikes-starting-thursday Lufthansa will not bow to demands from striking cabin crew, the company said on Wednesday after the failure of a legal bid to end the strike. https://www.thelocal.de/20151111/lufthan Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:06:45 +0100 lufthan Strikes by Lufthansa cabin crew will hit 136 flights and 27,300 passengers on Tuesday, with little hope of a negotiated solution to the week-long walkout. https://www.thelocal.de/20151110/lufthansa-strike-hits-113000-passengers Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:23:00 +0100 lufthansa-strike-hits-113000-passengers Germany's biggest airline Lufthansa faces more aviation chaos Monday, cancelling more than 900 domestic and European flights as cabin crew said they would resume a strike in a battle over cost cuts. https://www.thelocal.de/20151109/lufthansa-cuts-hundreds-of-flights-in-union-dispute Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:15:52 +0100 lufthansa-cuts-hundreds-of-flights-in-union-dispute German airline Lufthansa cancelled 290 flights Friday, grounding 37,500 passengers, as cabin staff began a week-long blitz of walkouts in a long-running battle over savings aimed at fending off competition from low-cost rivals. https://www.thelocal.de/20151106/10000s-grounded-as-lufthansa-crews-strike Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:51:39 +0100 10000s-grounded-as-lufthansa-crews-strike Updated: German airline Lufthansa said it will cancel 290 flights later Friday, the first day of a planned week of walkouts by cabin staff in a long-running dispute over cost-saving measures. https://www.thelocal.de/20151106/lufthansa-strikes-to-hit-frankfurt-and-dsseldorf Fri, 06 Nov 2015 09:48:49 +0100 lufthansa-strikes-to-hit-frankfurt-and-dsseldorf Air crew union UFO will strike for a week starting on Friday, after refusing a last-ditch offer to improve pensions from employer Lufthansa. https://www.thelocal.de/20151105/air-crews-confirm-week-long-lufthansa-strike Thu, 05 Nov 2015 19:04:37 +0100 air-crews-confirm-week-long-lufthansa-strike Cabin crew union Ufo announced on Monday that Lufthansa crews will go on strike from Friday for seven days, creating more turbulence for the strike-hit air carrier. https://www.thelocal.de/20151102/lufthansa-faces-new-strikes-starting-friday Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:53:59 +0100 lufthansa-faces-new-strikes-starting-friday A mysterious crop circle in Bavaria has attracted thousands of visitors since it was spotted in a wheat field last week. https://www.thelocal.de/20140730/bavarian-crop-circle-raisting-germany-draws-crowds Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:20:00 +0200 bavarian-crop-circle-raisting-germany-draws-crowds The unidentified flying object which grounded flights at Bremen airport earlier in January is believed to be a model plane, an initial police investigation revealed on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20140122/bremen-ufo-was-likely-model-plane Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:44:00 +0100 bremen-ufo-was-likely-model-plane The disruption at Bremen airport on Monday night caused by an unidentified flying object is just the latest in a series of UFO sightings in German skies dating back almost 500 years. https://www.thelocal.de/20140108/germanys-top-ufo-sightings-bremen Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:42:00 +0100 germanys-top-ufo-sightings-bremen UPDATE: An unidentified flying object which ruined the travel plans of passengers at Bremen airport on Monday night looked like a plane but was a lot louder, according to eyewitnesses. https://www.thelocal.de/20140107/alleged-ufo-disrupts-travel-at-airport-bremen-germany Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:05:00 +0100 alleged-ufo-disrupts-travel-at-airport-bremen-germany Germany's leading airline Lufthansa said on Tuesday that it had reached a deal with cabin crew representatives to end a bitter dispute that had led to work stoppages. https://www.thelocal.de/20121113/46141 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:43:00 +0100 46141