Lufthansa employees presented a special Christmas gift to passengers yesterday - an unscheduled strike at the Paris airport of Charles de Gaulle with the cancellation of all flights .

"Nobody came to work. All employees of the air carrier fell ill. In this regard, all day flights Lufthansa - 11 with departure from Charles de Gaulle and the same with the arrival - canceled, "said the press attache manager of Paris airports company ADP (Aéroports de Paris). According to preliminary information, an unscheduled strike affected about 1,300 passengers who had to look for alternative variants of the planned flights

Let's remind that in the coming 2014 the German air carrier plans to reduce the staff by 3,500 employees: a reduction in the number of jobs will save him additional 1, 5 billion EUR. In order to cut costs, Lufthansa is also going to reform its Germanwings subsidiary and transfer some of its workers to pay lower salaries there.

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