Verdi warning strike started at Lufthansa – hundreds of flight cancellations
Published: Wednesday, Feb 7th 2024, 04:30
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The announced warning strike by Lufthansa ground staff began overnight. This was confirmed on Wednesday morning by a spokesperson for the German trade union Verdi at Frankfurt Airport.
Together with Munich, the hub will be the hardest hit by the strike planned for 27 hours. As a precaution, the airline has canceled between 80 and 90 percent of its approximately 1,000 planned flights for Wednesday.
In addition to Frankfurt and Munich, Verdi has also called on employees at various Lufthansa companies in Hamburg, Berlin and Düsseldorf to take industrial action. The first flights were already canceled on Tuesday evening. According to the company, more than 100,000 passengers had to reschedule their flights. At the other airports in Germany, connections to and from Frankfurt and Munich were generally canceled. However, passengers of Lufthansa subsidiaries such as Swiss and external airlines are not or hardly affected.
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