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*Nigeria: Lufthansa Plans Against Pilots Strike

[ Lufthansa Plans Special Flight Schedule - Cancels Today’s Flight Into Lagos ]

By Lateef Lawal

The management of Lufthansa has taken a pre-emptive measure to ensure that the strike planned by its pilots to begin anytime this week does not totally disrupt its flights in and out of Nigeria. As a result, corresponding adjustments are being made to its flight schedule.

From Monday(today) to Thursday, February 22- 25, about two thirds of the affected Lufthansa operated flights will be cancelled, however Lufthansa regional partners such as Lufthansa CityLine will operate their flights according to schedule.

The daily Abuja flight with continuation to Port Harcourt (four times a week) is going to operate normally. However, the Lagos flight, according to the special flight schedule, is being cancelled on Monday 22 February(today), and Thursday, 25 February.

The special flight schedule for the period of the strike can now be accessed at www.lufthansa.com. It lists all flights which should be operating according to the current planning. Depending upon the actual operating conditions during the days of the strike, further changes could be made to the special flight schedule. ( Continues below..... )

Customers who have purchased a Lufthansa ticket for a flight which is operated by a partner airline (codeshare) will not find the LH flight number known to them in the special flight schedule. Since the partner airlines of Lufthansa are not affected by the strike, their flights will operate as planned.

According to a press release by Lufthansa, the airline said it was doing everything within its power to reach its customers as soon as possible and offer them alternative travel options.

Passengers already booked on a Lufthansa flight during the period from February 22 to 25 can rebook once free of charge on another Lufthansa flight, if they wish to change their travel plans – provided their ticket was issued before February 18, the new travel date is before May 31, 2010 and their arrival and departure destinations remain the same.

Should a flight be cancelled, and the purpose of the journey no longer applies, passengers can cancel their booking free of charge.

Lateef Lawal (NigerianAviationNews)

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