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Airplanes grounded in Germany. A 48h pilots strike of Germanwings: 50% flights stopped

Cologne, Germany - Blocked the low-cost airline subsidiary of Lufthansa, over 400 connections suspended

It’s started today one 48-hour strike of the pilots of Germanwings, started at 00:01am will end tomorrow at 11:59pm, organized by the pilots union VCockpit (Vereinigung Cockpit). The air company is a German low-cost, 100% owned by Lufthansa, that are relying, gradually by 2012, most of the routes in the short and medium range. At the heart of the matter are the lowering of the age of retirement f...

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Rome, Italy, 02/12/2015 16:05
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