After the one-day warning strike at Hamburg Airport, the airport resumed flight operations on Saturday morning. The first machine to take off at 6:15 a.m. was a Eurowings plane for Zurich, according to the airport’s website. The originally first take-off of a TAP Air Portugal machine to Lisbon was delayed by around an hour. The first landings from Istanbul and Lisbon took place shortly after 6:00 a.m.
In the course of the day, the last effects of yesterday’s strike are likely to have leveled off again, said a spokeswoman for the airport in the morning. Due to rebookings from the previous day, a significantly higher occupancy rate can be expected for individual flights.
From Thursday 10:00 p.m. nothing worked at Hamburg Airport. Without exception, there were no take-offs or landings. The warning strike by employees in the federal and municipal public services and other parts of the airport officially ended on Friday at 10 p.m. However, Hamburg Airport only resumed flight operations, which officially lasted until 11 p.m., on Saturday morning. 95 take-offs and 99 landings are planned.
According to the airport, 253 flights and around 32,000 passengers were affected by the warning strike. There were further walkouts at the airports in Frankfurt, Munich, Hanover, Stuttgart, Bremen and Dortmund. According to estimates by the airport association ADV, almost 300,000 passengers nationwide were affected by more than 2,300 flight cancellations.
The Verdi union is demanding 10.5 percent more money for the approximately 2.5 million public sector employees nationwide from the federal and local governments, but at least 500 euros more per month. The employers have so far rejected the demands. The second round of negotiations is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.
