Lufthansa cancels 700 flights on first day of cabin crew walkout
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FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - Lufthansa flight attendants went on a 48-hour strike over pay and pensions on Thursday, forcing the biggest German airline to cancel hundreds of flights.Lufthansa on Wednesday announced it expected to cancel a total of 1,300 connections on Thursday and Friday, with 180,000 passengers affected. That amounts to about one in five of Lufthansa's planned 6,000 flights over the two-day period.The departure table on Frankfurt airport's website showed scores of cancelled..