Lufthansa cabin crews go on strike; dozens of flights at Frankfurt airport cancelled

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Cabin attendants take part in a demonstration at the Frankfurt airport as the flight attendants of German Lufthansa airline went on a seven hour strike at the international airport on Friday morning, Aug. 31, 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany, causing at least 60 cancelled flights. More and longer lasting strikes are announced for the next days and weeks.(AP Photo/Michael Probst)

BERLIN – Lufthansa flight attendants are on strike at Germany’s busiest airport, causing the cancellation of dozens of flights.

The cabin crews walked off the job early Friday morning at Frankfurt airport in an eight-hour strike that is to last until early afternoon.

The UFO union says it will continue staging short-term strikes until its demands for better pay and conditions for some 18,000 cabin crew at the airline, Germany’s largest, are met.

Lufthansa says it has cancelled about a quarter of the 360 flights at the airport that were scheduled during the strike hours, all short and middle-distance routes.

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