Highlights
- About 134,000 passengers needed to change their journey plans or cancel them altogether
- No less than 47 connections had already been cancelled on Tuesday
- The Lufthansa strike began early on Wednesday (native time) and is about to finish early on Thursday
Lufthansa flights cancelled: Greater than 1,000 Lufthansa flights had been cancelled on Wednesday as a result of a day’s strike by the airline’s German floor workers. The strike affected tens of 1000’s of passengers within the newest journey turmoil to hit Europe.
About 1,34,000 passengers needed to change their journey plans or cancel them altogether.
No less than 47 connections had already been cancelled on Tuesday, knowledge revealed.
Lufthansa’s primary hubs in Frankfurt and Munich had been most affected, however flights had been additionally cancelled in Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen, Hannover, Stuttgart and Cologne.
The airline suggested affected passengers to not come to the airports as a result of many of the counters there wouldn’t be staffed anyway.
The service staff’ union introduced the strike on Monday because it seeks to boost stress on Lufthansa in negotiations on pay for about 20,000 staff of logistical, technical and cargo subsidiaries of the airline.
The walkout comes at a time when airports in Germany and throughout Europe already are seeing disruption and lengthy strains for safety checks due to workers shortages and hovering journey demand.
As inflation soars, strikes for larger pay by airport crews in France and Scandinavian Airways pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark have deepened the chaos for travellers who’ve confronted last-minute cancellations, prolonged delays, misplaced baggage or lengthy waits for luggage in airports throughout Europe.
Journey is booming this summer time after two years of COVID-19 restrictions, swamping airways and airports that do not have sufficient staff after pandemic-era layoffs. Airports like London’s Heathrow and Amsterdam’s Schiphol have restricted each day flights or passenger numbers.
The Lufthansa strike began early on Wednesday at 3.45 am (native time) and is about to finish early on Thursday.
Such “warning strikes” are a standard tactic in German labour negotiations and usually final from a number of hours to a day or two.
Lufthansa’s chief personnel officer, Michael Niggemann, argued that “this so-called warning strike in the midst of the height summer time journey season is solely not proportionate”.
(With inputs from AP)