FRANKFURT, Germany — Deutsche Lufthansa AG said 15 flights were canceled Wednesday morning due to a short pilot strike at Contact Air, a regional partner airline.
Lufthansa spokesman Peter Schneckenleitner said that the flights affected were on domestic German and short-haul European routes. Contact Air operates flights on some of those routes for Lufthansa.
The five-hour walkout, which affected flights at Duesseldorf, Hannover, Hof, Nuermberg and Stuttgart airports, started at 4.30 a.m. (0330 GMT).
The pilots’ union, Cockpit, was pressing its demand for progress in pay negotiations, which it says have gone nowhere since a previous contract between employers and the company expired last July
