{"id":299982,"date":"2019-11-08T10:15:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T04:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=299982"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T05:01:46","slug":"lufthansa-ready-for-arbitration-to-resolve-long-running-staff-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lufthansa-ready-for-arbitration-to-resolve-long-running-staff-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa ready for arbitration to resolve long-running staff dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa is ready to go into arbitration to resolve a long-running staff dispute, the CEO of Germany&#8217;s largest airline said on Thursday, as a walkout by flight attendants disrupted travel plans of tens of thousands of passengers. An end to the row over pay and pensions, and the legal status of flight attendants&#8217; union UFO would relieve the company of a major headache. <\/p>\n<p>Lufthansa faces intense competition from Ryanair and easyJet and has reacted by cutting costs and announcing a turnaround plan for its budget unit Eurowings, which it said on Thursday was paying off as it reported better-than-expected quarterly figures. Shares in the Frankfurt-based group were up 8.5% at 1140 GMT. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are confident of finding a way to resolve legal questions by going into arbitration,&#8221; Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa is ready to go into arbitration to resolve a long-running staff dispute, the CEO of Germany&#8217;s largest airline said on Thursday, as a walkout by flight attendants disrupted travel plans of tens of thousands of passengers. An end to the row over pay and pensions, and the legal status of flight attendants&#8217; union UFO would relieve the company of a major headache. Lufthansa faces intense competition from Ryanair and easyJet and has reacted by cutting costs and announcing a turnaround plan for its budget unit Eurowings, which it said on Thursday was paying off as it reported better-than-expected quarterly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}