UPS pilots honor German picket lines at Cologne Bonn Airport, ground 16 flights | WHAS11.com
UPS pilots honor German picket lines at Cologne Bonn Airport, ground 16 flights
WHAS11, Independent Pilots Association , WHAS 10:28 AM. CDT April 27, 2016
Louisville – Approximately 80 members of the Independent Pilots Association (UPS pilots) working in Cologne, Germany are honoring the picket lines of ver.di at the Cologne Bonn airport. The strike is scheduled to last 24 hours after beginning at midnight local Germany time Tuesday night.
“Ver.di, which represents the ground staff at the Cologne Bonn airport, has asked the IPA to withhold our services as pilots during their 24 hour strike,” said IPA President, Captain Robert Travis. “We will honor their strike and not cross the ver.di picket lines.”
It is estimated that the ver.di strike will impact about sixty UPS flights into and out of the Cologne Bonn airport.
“Last week we opened our strike center in anticipation of a potential strike of UPS by our pilots. Now, less than a week later, we are operating the strike center in support of our German co-workers,” said Travis. “We will demonstrate our solidarity with our co-workers in Germany, and we are confident they will support us, should that time come.”
As a result of crewmembers withholding their labor, the following sixteen UPS flights were grounded Tuesday night:
UPS Flt 232 CGN to East Midlands Airport
UPS Flt 244 CGN to London Stansted Airport
UPS Flt 284 CGN to Malmö Sturup Airport
UPS Flt 256 CGN to Madrid Barajas International Airport
UPS Flt 218 CGN to Charles de Gaulle International Airport
UPS Flt 292 CGN to Malmö Sturup Airport
UPS Flt 242 CGN to Barcelona International Airport
UPS Flt 236 CGN to London Stansted Airport
UPS Flt 294 CGN to Ruzyně International Airport
UPS Flt 260 CGN to Venezia / Tessera - Marco Polo Airport
UPS Flt 282 CGN to Stockholm-Arlanda Airport
UPS Flt 274 CGN to Vienna International Airport
UPS Flt 4 CGN to Warsaw Chopin Airport
UPS Flt 10 CGN to Dubai International Airport
UPS Flt 240 CGN to Philadelphia International Airport
UPS Flt 14 CGN to Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport
The only UPS flight that did take off overnight out of Cologne Bonn was flight 208 CGN to Newark, which was flown by three UPS management pilots (i.e., non-IPA crewmembers).
The ver.di strike will remain in effect until 6:00PM EDT.