Berlin (AP)-a one-day strike of workers at 13 German airports, including the Hubs Frankfurt and Munich and all other main goals in the country, caused most flights on Monday.
The 24-hour strike, which started on Sunday at midnight, includes employees of the public sector at the airports and land and security staff.
At Frankfurt Airport, 1,054 of the 1,116 planned starts and landings of the day were canceled, the German news agency dpa reported, citing airport traffic management.
All regular drains and arrivals from Berlin Airport were canceled, while Hamburg Airport said that no descents were possible. Cologne/Bonn Airport said there was no regular passenger service, and Munich Airport advised the travelers to expect a “greatly reduced flight schedule”.
The strike by ver.di Service Workers Union also aimed at the airports Bremen, Hanover, Duesseldorf, Dortmund, Leipzig/Halle and Stuttgart. Only security personnel were called at the smaller airports Weeze and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden.
The German Airport Association, ADV, estimated that a total of more than 3,500 flights canceled and about 560,000 passengers are affected.
The union announced the strike last Friday. But at Hamburg Airport Airport, it added a short -term price to the strike on Sunday on Monday and argued that the measure was effective.
The so-called “warning strike”, a common tactic in German wage negotiations, refers to two separate payment disputes: negotiations on a new salary and conditions contract for airport security personnel and a broader dispute over the payment of employees of federal and church statements.
The latter have already led to strikes in the airports in Cologne/Bonn, Duesseldorf, Hamburg and Munich. The payment talks in this dispute will be resumed on Friday, while the next round of talks for airport security employees will probably begin on March 26.
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