The German airline Lufthansa has cancelled 800 flights tomorrow due to a pilots' strike.
Around 7,000 UK passengers are due to be disrupted as all 34 of Lufthansa's connecting services will be grounded. They include journeys between Heathrow and Frankfurt and Munich in addition to 11 flights between Manchester and Germany.
Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), a trade union representing Lufthansa's pilots, announced the walkout on Thursday in a row over pay.
It accused bosses of failing to improve on their previous proposal.
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Matthias Baier, a spokesman for the union, said: "Aware of our responsibility for companies and guests, we wanted to leave no stone unturned and offered another negotiation date despite an inadequate offer and failed negotiations.
"We did not receive a sufficient offer today either. This is sobering and a missed opportunity. The negotiations have failed. The only thing left for us to do is to reinforce our demands with a labour dispute."
Lufthansa said it has offered to raise pilots' monthly base salaries by 900 euros (£777), and claimed the union's demands "would increase payroll costs by more than 40%". The airline's labour director Michael Niggemann said: "We cannot understand VC's call for a strike.
"The management has made a very good and socially balanced offer - despite the continuing burdens of the Covid crisis and uncertain prospects for the global economy. This escalation comes at the expense of many thousands of customers."
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