Lufthansa Halts 67% of Flights as Four-Day Pilot Strike Starts

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe’s second-largest airline, scrapped 67 percent of its services today as pilots start a four-day strike over work assignments.

Lufthansa and regional divisions are dropping 1,200 flights of the 1,800 services scheduled daily during the strike, said Stefanie Stotz, a spokeswoman for the carrier in Frankfurt. The Vereinigung Cockpit labor union is staging the walkout through Feb. 25.

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