FRANKFURT

The news that had circulated during the last week proved to be correct.

A total of 4 thousand pilots German airline, Lufthansa, strike began Sunday at 23:00 local time or 06.00 pm yesterday (22 / 2). The plan, the action lasted for four days.

The crew's biggest airline in Europe are demanding the company raise their salaries about 6.4 percent. In addition, they requested that Lufthansa is not guaranteed to fire them. Therefore, Lufthansa recently started to refer passengers to the five partner airlines cheaper cost.

"The protest will go smoothly," said Gerhard-Madjidi Alexander, a spokesman for Lufthansa cockpit union, in an interview with television station N-TV yesterday.

He hoped the protest four days could make the company relented and grant their demands. But, if the deal still is not reached until the protest ended, the union broke down again in the cockpit of a larger scale.

As a result of the mass strike, Lufthansa had to cancel two-thirds of the flight yesterday. Precisely, during the four-day strike, no less than 3,200 flights were canceled. Both regional and international flights.

The two largest airports in Germany, Frankfurt am Main in Frankfurt, and Franz Josef Strauß Airport in Munich, practically paralyzed. Business Lufthansa subsidiary, Lufthansa Cargo and the airline Germanwings, automatically come faltered.

"The impact of strike action was very dramatic," said Klaus Walther, a spokesman for Lufthansa, as quoted by Agence France-Presse reported yesterday.

During the four days of protest, according to Walther, the loss airline headquartered in Cologne was reached EUR 100 millions (approximately USD 1.2 trillion). The amount is not included immaterial losses.

The first time socialized labor strike last week, Lufthansa attempt to notify the prospective passengers. Those who canceled flights will get a full refund. While the force would continue to fly the airline partners are referred to without having to pay a penny, the BMI (UK), Austrian (Austria), Switzerland (Switzerland), Lufthansa Italy (Italy), and Brussels Airlines (Belgium).

Yesterday, at the Frankfurt airport information board, the German airline's flight schedule was canceled in writing. However, there is still a passenger who does not know, like Silvia and her husband Martin. Struggle they drove 225 miles from Strasbourg from 02.00 o'clock in vain. Therefore, the flight crew that they should fly to Venice on strike.