Just got some facts out of a German news magazine; please excuse the possibly bad translation:
How much pilots really work? What do they earn? How much does Lufthansa cost the strike? A compilation.
+ 29 to 33 months at least takes the training to become a commercial airline pilot at Bremen Pilot School of Lufthansa.
+ Approximately 30 percent of income improvements have fought after several work stoppages in 2001 by the pilots and their union cockpit.
+ 40 percent of total pension expenses, which makes Lufthansa for about 84,000 active or former employees in the country, benefit the approximately 8,400 pilots, ten percent of the workforce.
About 60 percent of the month is a pilot working - only a third of the time he is at home.
+ By 60 percent, to more than a billion euros, Lufthansa has increased its profit in 2013, when all non-recurring items are eliminated from the result.
+ 80 hours flight service per month pilots may operate in the cockpit according to the law. A flight operation can take up to 16 hours including preparation and waiting times. Overall, a 40-hour week.
+ The pilots of Lufthansa and German Wings fly their customers, according to the coming summer flight schedule, to 235 destinations in 78 countries.
+ 3800 flights are canceled during the three-day strike.
+ 5400 pilots pare on strike from Wednesday to Friday.
+ 20,000 additional passengers per day will use the train Deutsche Bahn, on Friday there will be more.
+ 60,000 to 80,000 euros does it cost to become a commercial pilot, according to the union Vereinigung Cockpit.
+ Up to 124.000 € per year is in the transitional care for a 55-year-old captain to the entrance to the official retirement age of 65.
+ 150,000 e-mails and text messages with strike information Lufthansa has sent to their customers.
+ Up to 150,000 Euro per year earning the captains of the Lufthansa Group belonging Swiss.
+ Around 260,000 euros, including allowances, per year earned a Lufthansa pilot who has been through all salary levels in the course of his career.
+ 425,000 passengers of Lufthansa and German Wings are affected by the three day strike.
+ In the "mid single digit" millions of lost revenue to the airport will be missed by Passenger, takeoff and landing fees, according to the airport operator Fraport.
+ With around 25 million euros costs every day of the strike; LH estimates a "high double-digit millions" loss for the three days off.
+ 104.6 million passengers carried by Lufthansa German Wings, Swiss and Austrian Airlines in 2013.
+ 181 million passengers took off and landed at German airports in 2013, the daily average of just under 500,000 passengers.
+ More than 1 billion euros has made provisions for the retirement of its pilots with 55 years Lufthansa.
+ Around 2.6 billion passengers were transported, according to the Federal Statistical Office in 2012 over the rail, which are 14 times as many travelers as in air traffic.
+ 5.9 billion euros spent the Lufthansa Group in 2013 for the salaries and wages and nearly 1.5 billion euros for social security or pensions.
Source:
http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/...-a-962200.html