Airport safety employees at three German airports (Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn & Hamburg) began a two-day strike immediately (learn extra right here), canceling most, if not all, flights (roughly 700).
The 2-day strike expands to incorporate Stuttgart airport for a day on Friday (April 21, 2023), and airways have already canceled nearly all flights.
The airways are required to rebook affected passengers at their earliest chance, even when this implies shifting them to rival airways. Passengers whose flights are canceled or considerably delayed also can select a refund.
Passengers are additionally eligible for Obligation to Care in case of lengthy delays. This requires airways to offer lodging and meals.
Lufthansa’s Announcement:
On 21. April, the German commerce union ver.di has known as for a strike of the airport safety employees in Stuttgart. Cancellations and delays within the Lufthansa Group flight schedule are anticipated.
Within the occasion of a cancellation, Lufthansa will rebook you freed from cost and normally routinely to a different flight and inform you by way of your cell phone quantity. If you don’t obtain a message from Lufthansa, please verify the present standing of your reserving. Right here you may also regulate the rebooking if required. Alternatively, you may also use the Lufthansa Chatbot.
When you have booked by means of a tour operator or journey company, you may additionally 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 possibly can trade your flight ticket right into a ticket with Deutsche Bahn freed from cost. We advocate that you simply make a reservation for this on the Deutsche Bahn web site. Please observe that the ticket is barely legitimate on Deutsche Bahn trains on the day of subject and the next day.
When you have a connecting flight from Frankfurt or Munich, we advocate that you simply enable adequate time for altering from practice to flight when planning your rail journey to the airports.
Please observe that unions of the Deutsche Bahn are planning a strike on Friday, 21 April within the morning hours. Substitute transport won’t be doable throughout this time. Likewise, an elevated quantity of passengers is predicted within the interval earlier than and after the rail strike.
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 one in every of our native Lufthansa cellphone numbers.
We ask in your understanding that there could also be longer ready instances as a result of elevated quantity of calls.
Conclusion
So, three airports are basically closed for immediately (Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn & Hamburg) and 4 tomorrow (Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn & Hamburg + Stuttgart), affecting a major variety of passengers.
It’s actually unlucky that there was no decision for the wage raises for these safety workers at German Airports.