Lufthansa cancels Paris flights after staff in French capital calls in sick

German airline Lufthansa cancelled four flights to and from Paris after most of its workers there called in sick on Thursday morning, a spokesman for the company said. Some passengers due to fly to Paris from Frankfurt were taken there by bus, the spokesman said, adding flight operations had returned to normal by the afternoon. The other affected flights were from Munich to Paris and back. The move comes about a month after Germany’s flagship carrier was forced to cancel around 100 flights to and from Paris Charles de Gaulle due to a strike by ground staff over plans to outsource ground operations at the French airport to a third-party provider. Lufthansa is in the midst of a cost-cutting programme that aims to improve profits by 1.5 billion euros.