About 4,000 pilots Europe's largest airline this morning began a strike that could cause some 300,000 passengers are affected. 
A massive strike by pilots of the German airline Lufthansa this morning caused havoc in half of Europe. About 4,000 of the 4,500 pilots of the highest European airline stopped working this morning through Thursday, and the company has filed a complaint with the Justice to try to stop a strike that considers "disproportionate" and that only now led to the cancellation of 800 flights and could cancel up to 4,000 in four days, affecting some 300,000 passengers. Which began today is the largest trade union movement in the history of the company. Many travelers, warned several days, delayed or canceled their trips, but still chaos taking hold of the main airports, although Lufthansa launched an emergency plan to keep at least half of its flights . Many passengers on domestic flights are being diverted to rail lines, and thus forced to make journeys of up to 5 to 6 hours instead of flights of less than an hour. The Cockpit union, which brings together more than 80% of the Lufthansa pilots, calls receive the same wage agreement for all the drivers of the company, including its foreign subsidiaries, which the company denies. During the weekend there were negotiations until Sunday night, but for now seems entrenched positions and the union continued its strike call. The union claims that drivers subsidiaries as Austrian Airlines or Lufthansa Italy earn much less. All that for Lufthansa is now promising not to lay off pilots until at least 2012. The company expects to lose in four days to strike up to 100 million euros, mainly due to lease aircraft and crews from other companies to attempt to override the minimum possible number of flights. The strike also affects subsidiaries of Lufthansa and Germanwings and Lufthansa Cargo. The German financial press today strongly attacked the pilots, whom he calls "irresponsible" for striking while the German economy still do not get out of the crisis. Michael Fuchs, vice chairman of the CDU parliamentary group, ruling head of government of Angela Merkel, said this morning that a strike "damaging" severely hurt the German economy. "I do not understand these drivers, who earn at least 6,000 euros per month and in many cases to 10,000. And they call for an increase of 6.4%. It's exaggerated," said Fuchs. But the union says that far from all Pilots have their salaries.
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