{"id":47696,"date":"2014-09-15T13:07:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T13:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=47696"},"modified":"2014-09-15T13:07:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T13:07:44","slug":"air-france-pilots-begin-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=47696","title":{"rendered":"Air France pilots begin strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Pilots for Air France have begun a week-long strike.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier will run less than 50% of normal flights, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The pilots are protesting against a transfer of jobs by the airline to a low-cost carrier to keep up with competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airfrance.fr\/FR\/en\/local\/information\/news\/news-air-traffic-air-france.htm\">Air France is urging passengers<\/a>\u00a0around the world to change or postpone travel. Last week it said it would transfer much of its European operations to low-cost carrier Transavia.<\/p>\n<p>The same difficult conditions are faced by large airlines across Europe, facing tough rivalry from budget airlines and Gulf state carriers, that are often backed by royal families.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lufthansa strike<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Frederic Gagey told France Inter radio that the strike would cost the airline 10m to 15m euros (\u00a38m &#8211; \u00a312m) a day.<\/p>\n<p>The airline said it would consider negotiation on benefits based on seniority for Air France pilots who agree to work for Transavia.<\/p>\n<p>However, it said it would not agree to trade union demands that the contracts of Transavia pilots carry the same terms as those flying under Air France.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the Vereinigung Cockpit union, which represents Lufthansa&#8217;s pilots, says they will cease working from Frankfurt airport for eight hours on Tuesday, preventing departures by Germany&#8217;s biggest airline from its busiest airport.<\/p>\n<p>There have been several strikes in the past three weeks by Lufthansa pilots in Munich and pilots at Lufthansa&#8217;s Germanwings business.<\/p>\n<p>That strike is over early retirement terms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilots for Air France have begun a week-long strike. The carrier will run less than 50% of normal flights, it said. The pilots are protesting against a transfer of jobs by the airline to a low-cost carrier to keep up with competition. Air France is urging passengers\u00a0around the world to change or postpone travel. Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":47697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23,4],"class_list":["post-47696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-kwesi-annin","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}