100,000 euros more than at Eurowings

Dusseldorf, Frankfurt The collective bargaining dispute with the ground staff has just been settled, but Lufthansa does not come to rest. Next, the pilots could stop working. In a ballot, the members of the Cockpit Association (VC) recently came out clearly in favor of a labor dispute. The union is demanding around 5.5 percent more money this year and automatic inflation compensation from 2023.

Above all, the pilots’ representation is a thorn in the side of the management’s strategy of shifting more and more traffic from the core brand to airlines like Eurowings. There, the personnel costs in the cockpit are significantly lower, it is argued. But what does reality look like?