Europe's multinational airlines strike the recession is the fuse

Lufthansa pilots at Frankfurt Airport protested the British Airways strike poster Beijing, February 23 (22nd), Germany's largest airline Lufthansa workers announced the resumption of negotiations with the company, agreed to suspend the strike action. The news is no doubt a sigh of relief for European and even global passengers. As Europe's largest airline, a strike by Lufthansa's 4,000 pilots will have a big impact on global air transport.　　In addition, some British and French airlines and airport staff are also planning to start the strike.　　Multinational airlines and Airport brewing strike 22nd, the German Lufthansa 4,000 pilots began a 4-day strike, causing thousands of flights were forced to cancel, affecting more than 10,000 passengers around the world travel. Lufthansa has more than 160 long-distance routes around the world, with more than 80 countries and regions, with an average of about 1800 flights per day. Lufthansa is scheduled to strike 1000 flights on time, but more than 800 flights have been affected.　　As a result, the spokesman said "more flights may be canceled". 22nd most of the affected are flights between Germany and the United States, the rest of the domestic or European short line is generally normal.　　In China, 24 flights have been affected in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.　　The airline's strike operation has also affected its Low-cost subsidiary, Deutsche Wing Airways, which has reported a 1/4 reduction in its flights on 22nd, but said the company says 85% of its flights will run normally. In addition, due to dissatisfaction with the company's working environment, British Airways more than 80% flight attendants 21st voted to hold a strike. As the Union strikes, the employer is required to be notified one week in advance, so the strike will be held as soon as 1st.　　To publicize the strike, they also produced a poster to mimic a famous photograph of the U.S. military's capture of Liuhuangdao in the Second World War, which led to protests in the United States. French air traffic controllers also plan to hold a 4-day strike. 5 of unions have called for a strike starting 23rd to protest European plans for an integrated air traffic control implementation.　　Air traffic controllers in France worry that the plan will lead to their loss of jobs and civil service benefits. In addition, the Alyzia Airport service company in the two major airports in Paris, France, due to dissatisfaction with the staff shortage, heavy workload, demanding that the company raise wages did not result, on the morning of 21st, suddenly announced the strike, resulting in 21st 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Paris two major airports, nearly half of the flight delayed 30-40 minutes, to The delay was extended to all flights and the delay was increased to 50 minutes to 1 hours.　　An airport source said the talks were restarted on the morning of 22nd. The strike will lead to heavy losses on the morning of 22nd, as Lufthansa's 4,000 pilots strike, the usual busy Frankfurt airport became a solitude. The departure time of the terminal has shown that almost all Lufthansa flights have been canceled except for a handful of flight as usual. In addition, the operation of Munich airport has been seriously affected. There are passenger complaints, LufthansaThey were not notified of the cancellation of their flights early and suffered losses.　　It is estimated that the strike will cost Lufthansa 25 million euros a day, and if the strike lasts 4 days, Lufthansa believes it will face a loss of up to € 100 million and damage the company's reputation.　　As a strike, the price of Lufthansa fell 1.7% in Germany on 22nd, while Germany's DAX index fell 0.59% in the middle, its first fall in 6 trading days.　　As for the possible British Airways strike, experts estimate that British Airways will lose about 20 million pounds of operating income per day on strike. The Hansa strike suspended the night of 22nd, causing a turnaround in the major concern of the Lufthansa strike.　　Lufthansa staff announced the resumption of negotiations with the company, agreed to suspend the strike action. Lufthansa originally asked the Frankfurt court to decide that the strike was "disproportionate" in an attempt to prevent the strike from continuing. But after mediation by the Frankfurt Labour Court, the two sides agreed to return to the negotiating table.　　According to reports, the two sides issued a joint statement, said from Greenwich Mean time 22nd Night 23 o'clock, suspended originally planned for the 4-day strike, and in a short period of time "unconditionally immediately" start negotiations. Lufthansa has 4,500 pilots and about 100,000 employees. The pilots ' union asked the management to raise the salary by 6.4% and increase the trade union's voice in the company's decision-making and the protection of the pilots ' jobs.　　The final negotiation broke down and led to the strike of the machine Normal University.　　In an effort to lobby the pilots ' union on 21st, Lufthansa advised the Union to secure job requirements, and management proposed to extend the hiring of all pilots to the end of 2012, and said that if the union waived the pay rise for more than 1 years, it could extend the hiring period of the pilots to 2013 or 2014 years. Background analysis: Airline industry recession affects employee benefits in recent years, as a result of the global economic crisis, major European airlines have announced wage cuts and layoffs.　　Big airlines often face the triple challenge of competing with other low-cost carriers in addition to the economic downturn and rising fuel costs. As a result, large airlines have to influence employee benefits and benefits for economic benefits. Many employees complain about the bad working environment, insufficient salary and poor welfare, and ask the company to improve the treatment and protect the welfare of employees. But companies often talk to unions or staff representatives, either refusing to compromise or simply staying on verbal promises and not putting them into action.　　As a result, employees ' grievances are only vented through strikes. According to other reports, the International Aviation Association statistics show that 2009 global civil aviation industry is suffering in decades the worst recession. 2009 Annual passenger demand for civil aviation fell by 3.5%, freight demand fell by 10.1%, equivalent to the passenger market retrogression of 2.5 years, the freight market has regressed for 3.5 years.