German airline company Lufthansa canceled nearly 900 of flights scheduled on Wednesday and will be grounding some planes on Thursday. The company confirmed that the move follows a 48-hour walkout by its pilots who have been in dispute with the company over salary issues.

The union representing Lufthansa pilots said in a statement that all of the company's short and long-haul flights coming from Germany would be affected by the strike. The company are planning to cease operation until 19:59 p.m. GMT on Thursday.

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According to The Guardian, this is the 14th strike to hit Lufthansa as the rift between the company and its pilots continue to worsen. The airline company said that it was forced to cancel 875 out of roughly 3,000 flights scheduled for Wednesday.

The cancellation will affect about 100,000 passengers, according to Reuters.

Lufthansa has been looking for ways to prevent the impending strike after a Frankfurt labor court rejected the company's application for an injunction. A judge from the Hesse state labor court rejected Lufthansa's appeal and ruled that the strike may go ahead. The judge said that the labor dispute between the airline company and its workforce was too complex to be properly fixed with any form of expedited injunction.

Lufthansa said that the company's other airline operators like Eurowings, Germanwings, Brussels Airlines, SWISS, and Austrian Airlines are not affected by the strike.

As a way to cope up with the canceled flights, SWISS and Austrian Airlines are checking if they can use larger aircraft to increase their operational capacity.

Labor talks between Lufthansa and Vereinigung Cockpit union came to a halt this month. Pilots have also rejected Lufthansa's plan to bring the dispute into a mediator.

The pilots are demanding an average pay increase of 3.7 percent. However, Lufthansa has been hard on this demand as the company continues to cut its operation costs to cope with competition from low-cost airline companies. As a compromise, the company has offered its pilots a 2.5 percent salary increase until 2019.