The safety employees at lots of the German airports has been on strike intermittently for the previous few weeks, and this time it’s Berlin Brandenburg’s activate April 24, 2023.
Lufthansa has knowledgeable that it’ll function all flights TO Berlin, however it seems that all departing flights, together with these of Lufthansa, have been canceled (Lufthansa probably flies planes out with out passengers).
The airways are required per EC261/2004 to rebook the affected passengers at their earlier comfort (passengers’, not the airways’), or passengers can even go for a refund in the event that they so want, even on noncancelable and nonrefundable tickets.
Passengers are additionally eligible for Obligation to Care, which implies lodging (lodge) and/or meals in case of lengthy delays.
Lufthansa’s Announcement:
On 24. April, the German commerce union ver.di has referred to as for a strike of the airport safety employees in Berlin. Cancellations and delays within the Lufthansa Group flight schedule from Berlin are anticipated. Flights to Berlin are to be operated as scheduled.
Within the occasion of a cancellation, Lufthansa will rebook you on one other flight freed from cost and normally routinely and inform you through your cell phone quantity. If you don’t obtain a message from Lufthansa, please examine the present standing of your reserving. Right here you may also regulate the rebooking if required. Alternatively, you may also use the Lufthansa Chat Assistant.
As there are not any flights from Berlin on Monday, we suggest substitute transport by Deutsche Bahn.
In case you booked your flight by means of a tour operator or journey company, you might also contact the tour operator / journey company the place the reserving was made.
Within the occasion of a cancellation of a home Lufthansa flight (or a Lufthansa flight between Germany and Basel or Salzburg) inside two days earlier than departure, you’ll be able to trade your flight ticket right into a ticket with Deutsche Bahn freed from cost. We suggest that you simply make a reservation for this on the Deutsche Bahn web site. Please word that the ticket is simply legitimate on Deutsche Bahn trains on the day of challenge and the next day.
When you have a connecting flight from Frankfurt or Munich, we suggest that you simply enable adequate time for altering from practice to flight when planning your rail journey to the airports.
Hotline
In case you aren’t in a position to make use of the talked about self-service choices, please contact our Service Heart at +49 (0) 69-86-799-799*, or considered one of our native Lufthansa telephone numbers.
We ask to your understanding that there could also be longer ready occasions because of the elevated quantity of calls.
* Calls from landlines are charged at native charges, costs from the cellular networks rely on the supplier and will differ.
You could find extra data and suggestions in case of irregularities at quick discover on our particular web page.
Conclusion
They actually ought to discover a answer for the safety employees strikes in Germany, though there may be fairly a niche between what the commerce union calls for and what the opposite occasion is prepared to just accept.
I’m scheduled to fly by means of Frankfurt Airport in lower than two weeks and must intently monitor the scenario, as must you, who’ve flights to/from/by means of Germany, till this challenge has been resolved.