Lufthansa cancels 13 flights from India

German carrier,Lufthansa has cancelled its 13 flights from India in the wake of a five-day strike called by their pilots union.

Out of 52 flights,in a week,13 Lufthansa flights out of Delhi,Mumbai,Kolkata,Chennai and Bangalore to Frankfurt and Munich have been cancelled for a period of five-days,that is from February 22 to 25, an airlines spokesperson said.

Lufthansa (LH) directly operates around 52 flights in a week out of India,but it has an alliance with Swiss and Austrian airlines which operates 11 and 05 flights respectively.

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The German airline has also a code-share agreement with Indias national carrier,Air India which operates around 14 flights in a week.

Since,no code-shared flights and those of alliance airlines were not affected we have arranged seats for those passengers who have some urgency to take flight, the spokesperson said,adding many passengers have preferred to re-book their tickets.

A strike by more than 4,000 Lufthansa pilots has grounded about 800 flights worldwide today affecting the travel plans of about 10,000 passengers around the globe.

The German airlines has come up with special schedule which would be applicable from February 22 to 25,during the period of strike called by pilots union Vereinigung Cockpit.

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List of all flights,operating during the period,is available at the airlines website http://www.lufthansa.com.

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