Berlin - A pay strike by ground and cabin staff at Lufthansa entered its second day Tuesday with the German airline cancelling several flights, as services union Verdi extended its industrial action to additional airports.
Germany's largest airline said nine aircraft of its fleet of 520 were inoperable as they had not undergone the required maintenance. Lufthansa cancelled a total of 16 domestic flights from three different airports.
Lufthansa spokeswoman Claudia Lange said long-haul flights were not affected.
Berlin - German airports faced severe disruptions at the height of the holiday season Monday as ground and cabin staff at Lufthansa, the country's largest airline, went on strike for higher pay.
The strike, which began at midnight, targeted the main hubs at Frankfurt and Hamburg although Munich, Dusseldorf and Cologne-Bonn were also to be affected.
The services trade union Verdi said its main aim was not to cause cancellations but to hit the company financially. It is demanding a substantial pay rise for 50,000 workers.
Berlin - Germans no longer think twice about paying the rent or auctioning off an old tennis racquet online. The internet is now part of everyday life for 80 per cent of Germans. But a recent survey by Forsa, an opinion research institute, showed that 4 million Germans have fallen victim to computer crime.
They account for 7 per cent of all computer users over 14 years, according to BITKOM, the Federal Association of the Information Industry, Telecommunications and New Media.
Berlin - Web sites for career networking are proving a virtual bonanza for cybercriminals. As the users of corresponding social network platforms often reveal many personal details, the pages provide a rich source for spammers to gather data, says Katrin Alberts from the German Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology
(BSI) in Berlin. The information included there is increasingly being used for personalized phishing attacks.
Berlin - German luxury carmaker Porsche, which holds almost a third of mass producer Volkswagen, is to publish figures for the financial year ending July 31 that will show profits higher than turnover, a news report said Saturday.
Der Spiegel news magazine said the unusual accounting situation would result from the revaluation of the 31-per-cent VW stake. Porsche would report profits of more than
11 billion euros (17 billion dollars) on turnover of just 8.6 billion euros.
Berlin - A pay strike by ground and cabin staff at Lufthansa entered its second day Tuesday with the German airline cancelling several flights, as services union Verdi extended its industrial action to additional airports.
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Germans no longer think twice about paying the rent or auctioning off an old tennis racquet online. The internet is now part of everyday life for 80 per cent of Germans. But a recent survey by Forsa, an opinion research institute, showed that 4 million Germans have fallen victim to computer crime.
Berlin - German luxury carmaker Porsche, which holds almost a third of mass producer Volkswagen, is to publish figures for the financial year ending July 31 that will show profits higher than turnover, a news report said Saturday.
