About 30,000 passengers likely to be affected by Eurowings pilot strike

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The airline said on Wednesday it expects to be able to operate about half its usual schedule of just over 500 flights.

The action will affect only Eurowings Germany flights, not those of Eurowings Europe.

Pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), which announced the strike on Tuesday after 10 rounds of talks failed, wants Eurowings to ease pilots’ workloads by, for example, cutting the amount of time a pilot would have to be on duty or increasing their rest periods.

A Eurowings board member, Kai Duve, said in a statement that the demands endanger the viability of the airline.