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Strike chaos struck Germany's national airline again on Thursday, with 700 pilots walking off the job at Lufthansa's CityLine subsidiary. The short-hop airline cancelled around 360 flights.
Just days after ground and cabin personnel ended their strike, a new labor conflict started at German airline Lufthansa on Friday. At midnight, the 700 pilots for its CityLine subsidiary walked off the job in a 36-hour warning strike. Called by the Cockpit union, the strike caused the cancellation of hundreds of flights as well as delays.
The strike has hit all of the German cities that CityLine flies to, including important hubs Frankfurt, Munich, Düsseldorf and Berlin. A Lufthansa spokesperson told SPIEGEL ONLINE that around 360 of CityLine's scheduled flights had to be cancelled.
CityLine is a Lufthansa subsidiary that offers flights to domestic destinations in Germany as well as European cities -- generally with regional jet services to cities that don't have enough demand for larger Lufthansa aircraft to serve them. Flights on normal Lufthansa flights have not been effected by Thursday's walkout.
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