article_snippet: A number of pilots at low-cost airline Germanwings refused to fly today following yesterday's crash in the French Alps that killed all 150 people on board.
article_snippet: A spokeswoman for the airline's parent company, Lufthansa, said one Germanwings flight from Dusseldorf to Barcelona was cancelled because the pilots 'don't feel the pilots ' are in a position to fly'.
article_snippet: She declined to say how many pilots declined to work today, adding that all Lufthansa flights were going ahead as planned.
article_snippet: how many pilots have friends and colleagues who have died,' Handwerg said on public television. '
article_snippet: That is such a heavy emotional burden that it's better not to get into the cockpit.'
article_snippet: A spokesman from BALPA told MaiOnline: 'BALPA has gained information from the German pilot union that Lufthansa and Germanwings are giving pilots time off for grief.
article_snippet: ‘British pilots sympathise with British pilots German colleagues and completely understand.
article_snippet: Pilots have to be fit to fly, and if Pilots feel emotionally unfit to fly, it is important Pilots do not take to the air.
highlights_snippet: One Germanwings flight cancelled because pilots 'didn't feel able to fly'
  Passengers stranded at UK airports yesterday after crews refused to work .