Announced strike by pilots union Vereinigung Cockpit on September 16th

The pilots union Vereinigung Cockpit has announced a strike for long-haul flights departing from Lufthansa’s Frankfurt hub scheduled for Tuesday, September 16th, in the time from 9.00 to 17.00 CEST. Lufthansa long-haul flight operations departing from Frankfurt will be affected by the strike. All Lufthansa flights to and from the Munich hub as well as short-haul flights from and to Frankfurt will operate as scheduled.

Passengers holding a Lufthansa/SWISS/Austrian Airlines or Brussels Ticket for flights from/to/via Frankfurt on 16.9.2014 can rebook their tickets once free of charge.

The following conditions have to apply:

Rebooking within same booking class:

- Tickets must be issue on/before 15.9.2014
- New date of travel must be on/before 16.12.2014
- Change of origin/destination and class of service/compartment is not permitted
- All other ticket conditions must be observed as per original ticket

We will do everything in our power to inform and advise our passengers to the best of our ability during this time.