Status: 02/27/2023 06:02 a.m
Today there are strikes again at German airports, in Düsseldorf and at Cologne/Bonn Airport. This also eliminates connections at Hamburg Airport.
On the Hamburg Airport website two departures to and two arrivals from Cologne/Bonn have been canceled so far. In addition, flights to and from Amsterdam and Paris have been canceled there, the reasons for these cancellations could not be given by the airport on Sunday.
Düsseldorf Airport expects a total of almost 200 canceled take-offs and landings today. 136 flights are said to be canceled in Cologne. The trade unions ver.di and Komba have called for the warning strike. The background to this is the negotiations for employees in the public sector at the federal and municipal level, as well as nationwide negotiations for employees in aviation security.
32,000 passengers had to reorient themselves
“Of course we have to go on strike sometimes”: A banner during the warning strike quotes Helmut Schmidt, after whom Hamburg Airport is named.
Just the week before last, a 24-hour warning strike paralyzed Hamburg Airport. Nothing worked there from Thursday at 10 p.m. to Friday at 10 p.m., passengers were asked not to come to the airport in the first place and to contact their airline. The airport had originally expected around 32,000 arriving and departing passengers on 253 flights on Friday. In Hamburg, several hundred airport employees gathered for a rally that day.
Seven airports affected
In addition to Hamburg, ver.di had also largely paralyzed the airports in Hanover and Bremen. There were also warning strikes at the airports in Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Dortmund. The airport association ADV spoke of around 2,340 flights being canceled and around 295,000 passengers affected.
More money for 2.5 million employees
With the warning strikes, the employees wanted to emphasize their demands in the ongoing collective bargaining dispute between the federal and local governments. ver.di and the civil servants’ association dbb are demanding 10.5 percent more money for the approximately 2.5 million employees in the federal and local public sector, but at least 500 euros more per month.
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