The flight attendant union UFO is positive about the attitude of the EU Commission and the Federal Cartel Office with regard to the feeder flights for Condor that Lufthansa has canceled. The employee representatives point out that they have repeatedly criticized the crane's behavior. Now UFO also accuses: “The Lufthansa Group is trying to use the crisis on a tariff and political level”.

“The statement 'We weren't aware that Condor was doing so badly' irritated us to a great extent. If we take this statement seriously, we would recommend that the shareholders reconsider the choice of management due to the obviously fundamental lack of expertise ”, said the head of tariff policy at UFO, Rainer Bauer, on a statement by a spokesman for the crane Group.

“Rather, it seems that Lufthansa, which has already proven in many places that it is using this crisis to expand its own market power and undermine working and remuneration conditions, must now backtrack because it has overstepped the curve. For a number of years now, Lufthansa has been planning to focus more on the long-haul tourist segment. For this, the Condor had to be displaced, whose tourist destinations they would like to occupy with their own Eurowings Discover brand, ”Bauer continued.  

“This is just another example of how the Lufthansa Group is trying to take advantage of this crisis. For years, the establishment and acquisitions of AOCs had prepared to allow companies to compete internally in order to force union representatives to make concessions that aimed at a downward spiral of working conditions and pay. The corona crisis helped the group, without the possibility of a labor dispute by the unions, to get the new Ocean project - now Eurowings Discover - up and running and at the same time to force SunExpress and Germanwings employees into new working conditions by giving notice, ”added UFO chairwoman Anja Bronstert .