{"id":672378,"date":"2010-02-22T15:17:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002420"},"modified":"2010-02-22T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:17:41","slug":"lufthansa-pilots-put-strike-on-hold-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/672378","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa Pilots Put Strike On Hold For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/lufthansastrike-thumb-332x500-37298.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours after 4,000 pilots for German airline Lufthansa walked off the job, the strike was suspended as talks resumed between the flyboys and girls and the company.<\/p>\n<p>A long-term strike by the Lufthansa pilots could have resulted in major disruptions to air travel around the world. The airline is the largest in Europe and the fifth-largest overall, offering around 1,800 flights every day. <\/p>\n<p>Even with only a brief interruption in service, 10,000 ticket holders were still disrupted. The airline did manage to get off about half of the day&#8217;s scheduled flights during the period of the strike and attempted to get the remaining passengers either on other carriers or onto trains.<\/p>\n<p>Company executives claim that a strike could cost Lufthansa around $34 million each day. <\/p>\n<p>The strike officially ends at 11pm GMT tonight and there is to be no further action taken by the pilots until at least March 9.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/8529352.stm\" ><br \/>\nLufthansa pilots suspend strike<\/a>  [BBC News]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after 4,000 pilots for German airline Lufthansa walked off the job, the strike was suspended as talks resumed between the flyboys and girls and the company. A long-term strike by the Lufthansa pilots could have resulted in major disruptions to air travel around the world. The airline is the largest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OUO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}