Lufthansa cabin and ground personnel have voted to go on strike on 28 July

Lufthansa cabin and ground personnel have voted to go on strike on 28 July 2008 over wage demands. The strike is expected to affect operations at airports in Berlin (EDDT/TXL and EDDB/SXF), Bremen (EDDW/BRE), Dusseldorf (EDDL/DUS), Frankfurt (EDDF/FRA), Hamburg (EDDH/HAM), Hannover (EDDV/HAJ), Leipzig (EDDP/LEJ), Munich (EDDM/MUC), Nuremberg (EDDN/NUE) and Stuttgart (EDDS/STR). Reports do not specify how long the strike is scheduled to last. The airline has prepared an emergency plan on the basis of which it hopes to guarantee that 75 percent of its flights will operate despite the work stoppage. Lufthansa has offered a 6.7 percent wage increase over 21 months, which the Ver.di union considers inadequate. Lufthansa's management has called on the union to resume talks on the issue.