The main airports in Germany, including those of Frankfurt and Munich (south), will experience a day of strike this Friday that will force their closure and that is expected to have a great impact on passenger traffic since the strikes planned by the ground personnel will not allow them to operate.
The call to strike affects seven aerodromes that bring together two thirds of the country’s passenger flights and will be in force from early today until dawn from Friday to Saturday.
In anticipation of the impact that the strike will have on their operations, the airports of Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart and Hamburg have already announced the suspension of commercial passenger flights.
The Frankfurt airport is the largest in Germany and the one with the highest air traffic in the European Union (EU) and the company that manages it, Fraport, already described the consequences of the strike as “disproportionate” on Wednesday.
The company assured that 1,005 movements were planned for Friday, between takeoffs and landings and that approximately 137,000 passengers will be affected by its cancellation.
In total, almost 300,000 passengers could be affected by the strikes throughout the country, according to estimates by the airport association (ADV).
In the case of Munich, a spokesman for the company that operates the airport confirmed in statements to the media that between 00:00 on Friday and 01:00 on Saturday local time none of the 700 scheduled takeoffs or landings will take place. of commercial flights.
In principle, however, the flights of government representatives from around the world who will attend the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on Friday, in which the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the vice president will participate, among others from the USA, Kamala Harris, who is already in the Bavarian capital.
The rest of the airports affected by the strike – those of Dortmund, Hannover and Bremen – are expected to continue operating despite the strike, although with a minimum of personnel.
The German trade union for the services sector Ver.di announced the strikes to demand a 10.5% wage increase for the 2.5 million workers in the sector, a claim that the employers have rejected.
Friday’s strike follows those called in January at the Hannover and Berlin airports, which forced the suspension of virtually all flights to or from the German capital.
This Wednesday, a serious failure in the computer systems of the Lufthansa airline triggered numerous cancellations and delays of flights at the Frankfurt airport and even its temporary closure for landings.
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