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		</div><p>A German court has today issued an injunction ordering a halt to a strike by pilots at Lufthansa, the country’s biggest airline.</p>
<p>The State Labour Court in Frankfurt issued the injunction after Lufthansa said it had cancelled 1,000 flights, according to news agency DPA.</p>
<p>The pilots’ union, Vereinigung Cockpit, began its strike on long-haul flights on Tuesday, forcing the cancellation of 90 flights, and extended the walkout to medium and short haul flights on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Lufthansa says some 140,000 travellers were affected but that about 500 of the airline’s flights would still operate.</p>
<p>Subsidiaries Germanwings, Swiss, Austrian Airlines or Brussels Airlines were not involved.</p>
<p>Lufthansa welcomed the ruling but said a special, reduced timetable it had drawn up for the day would remain in place. It said that largely normal services would resume on Thursday.</p>
<p>The dispute comes as Lufthansa restructures to meet increasing competition from Gulf airlines.</p>
<p>The pilots want the airline to keep making transition payments for those seeking early retirement.</p>
<p>The court found that the union’s aims went beyond that demand, to exerting more influence on Lufthansa’s new low-cost operation, making the strike illegal.</p>
<p>Union spokesman Markus Wahl told N-TV television after the ruling that it had told pilots to be available for work immediately.</p>
<p>Wednesday’s ruling overturned one by a lower court on Tuesday that went in the union’s favour.</p>
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