Lufthansa current bookings not affected by strikes

BERLIN (Reuters) - German airline Lufthansa said current bookings had not been dented by a series of strikes by its pilots in a dispute over retirement benefits earlier this year .

"Bookings are as strong as in the past," Chief Executive Carsten Spohr said on Thursday at a conference in Berlin.

However, Lufthansa was experiencing a certain decline in bookings to west Africa due to the Ebola outbreak, Spohr said.

(Reporting by Sabine Siebold; Writing by Kirsti Knolle; Editing by Ludwig Burger)