September 18, 2019, 3:42 p.m.
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Amsterdam-Schiphol is being struck by KLM ground staff on Wednesday. The airports in Germany hardly expect flight cancellations. airliners.de gives an overview of connections to Germany.
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The ground staff of the Dutch flag carrier KLM is called on Wednesday to stop work at the Amsterdam-Schiphol hub for four hours. The strike was initiated by the FNV union, which has been calling for a new collective agreement for employees for months. In advance, KLM announced that it would cancel twelve flights and called on its passengers to fly with hand luggage only if possible.
The impact on German airports is minimal. Upon request from airliners.de, Düsseldorf Airport announced that one rotation had to be canceled from a total of five flights. According to current information, a flight in Berlin was also canceled.
The airports in Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Bremen, Stuttgart and Munich announced that the strikes had no impact on the Amsterdam flights. However, one or the other connection could still fail, for example, it said from Frankfurt Airport.
KLM ranks 14th in Germany in terms of market share
In the current summer schedule period, the Dutch airline connects its hub in Amsterdam with eleven German airports and offers around 2.2 million seats between the Netherlands and Germany. KLM thus secured 14th place on the German market.
The main route of the airline is Amsterdam-Berlin. On the route alone, the Dutch offer around half a million seats. The route with the lowest number of seats is the route to Dresden, where the airline has around 40,000 seats in summer.
| Airport | Seats |
|---|---|
| Berlin Tegel | 246.632 |
| Munich | 193,444 |
| Hamburg | 121.502 |
| Frankfurt | 114,428 |
| Stuttgart | 97,820 |
| Dusseldorf | 95,604 |
| Hanover | 69,332 |
| Nuremberg | 68,778 |
| Bremen | 65,376 |
| Dresden | 18,480 |
The graphic shows the seats offered by KLM from Germany in the 2019 summer flight schedule to Amsterdam.Source: OAG, CH-Aviation
The carrier also offers the most rotations between Amsterdam and Berlin, as an analysis of the OAG data provided by CH-Aviation shows. There are an average of eight round trips on the route every working day.
The Dutch offer six rotations each to Frankfurt and Munich. It goes to Hamburg and Stuttgart five times a day and the airline offers four round trips to Bremen, Hanover and Nuremberg. After all, there is a daily flight between Amsterdam and Dresden.
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