Travel chaos for thousands

Published: 7:20 PM, Sep 02, 2022

A Lufthansa plane is being pulled onto the tarmac at the Franz-Josef-Strauss airport in Munich, southern Germany, on September 2, 2022, as pilots called for a strike affecting the Lufthansa passenger airline and Lufthansa Cargo after pay negotiations with the German airline collapsed. German airline group Lufthansa said it is cancelling "almost all" of its flights to and from its main German hubs in Munich and Frankfurt on September 2, 2022 after pilots called a strike. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP)

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German airline Lufthansa has lost its appeal at a Munich labour court for a temporary injunction against an ongoing pilots' strike. The airline has cancelled almost all of its scheduled flights for Friday as its pilots carry out industrial action. Around 130,000 passengers on more than 800 flights from the airline's hubs in Frankfurt and Munich have been affected.

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