Hamburg Airport: Security personnel are on strike on Tuesday

Travelers have to be prepared again for flight cancellations and delays at Hamburg Airport on Tuesday. In the ongoing nationwide collective bargaining dispute between security forces at airports, the Verdi trade union is calling on employees in passenger control and personnel and goods control to go on an all-day warning strike. At seven other German commercial airports, the inspectors should stop working all day, as the union in Berlin announced.

In Hamburg, a comparable warning strike had already caused all planned flights to be canceled last Tuesday (March 15). This had repercussions until the next day: Because many rebooked passengers wanted to fly and holiday flights were also being made up, there were unusually long queues all day long. The airport had therefore asked passengers to be at the airport at least two and a half hours before departure.

How many flights at the fifth largest German airport will be affected this time was still open on Monday afternoon. However, the airport company assumes “that the airlines will cancel a large part of the departures from Hamburg Airport planned for Tuesday,” as stated in a statement. “Originally, 88 departures from Hamburg were planned.”

As in the previous week, the advice to travelers is therefore: “All passengers who wanted to take off from Hamburg on Tuesday are asked to contact their airline as soon as possible and not to come to the airport if a flight is canceled.” Also for the day after With the warning strike, the airport is preparing passengers for long waiting times and recommends arriving early and allowing more time.

In addition, strikes are to be held in Frankfurt, Berlin, Bremen, Hanover, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Cologne/Bonn. The warning strikes are part of the wage conflict between Verdi and the Federal Association of Aviation Security Companies (BDLS). The union is negotiating with the employers’ association about a new collective agreement for around 25,000 security forces nationwide. Four rounds of negotiations had so far remained unsuccessful. Both sides want to meet again on Thursday (March 24) in Raunheim near Frankfurt.

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