Editing Lufthansa (section)

=== Employment relations ===
Relations between Lufthansa and their pilots have been very tense in the past years, with many strikes occurring, causing many flights to be cancelled, as well as major losses to the company.<ref name="ksb/bk 2015">{{cite news |url=https://www.dw.com/en/no-sign-of-take-off-as-lufthansa-pilots-extend-strike-to-three-days/a-18324310 |url-status=live |date=19 March 2015 |title=No sign of take-off as Lufthansa pilots extend strike to three days |publisher=[[Deutsche Welle]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211230161245/https://www.dw.com/en/no-sign-of-take-off-as-lufthansa-pilots-extend-strike-to-three-days/a-18324310 |archive-date=30 December 2021}}</ref> A major dispute between Lufthansa and the pilot's union has been settled after nearly five years and overall 14 strikes in December 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last=Koenen |first=Jens |date=15 March 2017 |title=Lufthansa und Piloten: Die Streikhansa ist gelandet |trans-title=Lufthansa and Pilots: The strike hansa landed |url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-konsumgueter/lufthansa-und-piloten-die-streikhansa-ist-gelandet/19519474-all.html |url-status=live |work=[[Handelsblatt]] |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706000005/https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-konsumgueter/lufthansa-und-piloten-die-streikhansa-ist-gelandet/19519474-all.html |archive-date=6 July 2017}}</ref> Without taking into account the €9 billion bailout from the German government, Lufthansa cut 31,000 jobs in the COVID-19 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lufthansa Group stoppt Stellenabbau und will wieder wachsen |url=https://www.airliners.de/lufthansa-group-stoppt-stellenabbau-wachsen/63776 |access-date=1 August 2022 |website=airliners.de |language=de |archive-date=18 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218004708/https://www.airliners.de/lufthansa-group-stoppt-stellenabbau-wachsen/63776 |url-status=live }}</ref> During the 2022 collective bargaining, verdi said that Lufthansa's wage offer meant real wage losses for employees and called on around 20,000 ground workers in Germany to go on warning strikes.<ref>{{cite web |last=tagesschau.de |title=Warnstreiks: Lufthansa streicht fast alle Flüge |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/warnstreiks-verdi-lufthansa-fluege-gestrichen-101.html |access-date=1 August 2022 |website=tagesschau.de |language=de |archive-date=1 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801132153/https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/warnstreiks-verdi-lufthansa-fluege-gestrichen-101.html |url-status=live }}</ref>