FRANKFURT – Several Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights to and from German airports on Monday (Mar 14) as security workers went on strike amid a wage dispute.
Security workers staged a full-day walkout at six airports including Duesseldorf, Cologne/Bonn and Berlin on Monday, and one-day strikes have also been called for other airports on Tuesday including Frankfurt and Hamburg.
At Cologne/Bonn, 94 out of 136 flights were called off, and Berlin airport’s website also showed many cancelled flights.
Tuesday’s walkout will hit Germany’s busiest airport, Frankfurt, which handled around 2.1 million passengers last month.
Frankfurt airport operator Fraport said only transit passengers would be able to get to their flights on Tuesday, when the airport was originally due to handling around 770 departures and arrivals, serving close to 80,000 passengers.
Lufthansa, Germany’s flagship carrier, which has a hub at Frankfurt, said it was cancelling 48 flights on Tuesday.
