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The
walkout affects short-haul flights departing across Germany on
Tuesday, forcing Lufthansa to cancel 816 out of around 3,000
planned flights. The pilots have also announced plans to strike
on short- and long-haul flights on Wednesday.
Lufthansa has offered to increase the pilots' pay by 4.4 percent
in two installments and make a one-off payment worth 1.8 months'
pay. Union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) wants an average annual pay
rise of 3.7 percent for 5,400 pilots over a five-year period
backdated to 2012.
VC rejected the latest pay offer from Lufthansa late on Friday
and has also rebuffed a bid for mediation.
"For mediation you need an offer that can be the basis of
negotiations," VC board member Alexander Gerhard-Madjidi told
Deutschlandfunk radio on Tuesday. "Lufthansa has not made such
an offer."
He said including demands for concessions in return for a wage
increase, Lufthansa's offer worked out to a 15 percent pay cut.
Last week, Lufthansa had to cancel nearly 2,800 flights during a
four-day walkout from Wednesday that affected more than 350,000
passengers, the 14th walkout in the dispute.
(Reporting by Maria Sheahan; Editing by Michael Perry)
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