A one-day strike by employees at 13 German airports, including the Frankfurt and Munich hubs and all of the nation’s different main locations, prompted the cancelation of most flights on Monday (March 10, 2025).
The 24-hour walkout, which began at midnight, entails public-sector staff at the airports in addition to floor and safety workers.
At Frankfurt Airport, 1,054 of the day’s 1,116 scheduled takeoffs and landings had been cancelled, German information company dpa reported, citing airport visitors administration.
All of Berlin Airport’s common departures and arrivals had been cancelled, whereas Hamburg Airport stated no departures can be potential. Cologne/Bonn Airport stated there was no common passenger service and Munich Airport suggested travellers to anticipate a “greatly reduced flight schedule.” The ver.di service employees union’s strike additionally focused the Hamburg, Bremen, Hannover, Berlin, Duesseldorf, Dortmund, Cologne/Bonn, Leipzig/Halle, Stuttgart and Munich airports. At the smaller Weeze and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden airports, solely safety employees had been referred to as out.
The union introduced the strike on Friday. But at Hamburg Airport, it added a short-notice walkout on Sunday to the strike on Monday, arguing that it should make sure the measure was efficient.
The so-called “warning strike,” a typical tactic in German wage negotiations, relates to two separate pay disputes: negotiations on a brand new pay and situations contract for airport safety employees, and a wider dispute over pay for workers of federal and municipal governments.
The latter already has led to walkouts at Cologne/Bonn, Duesseldorf, Hamburg and Munich airports. Pay talks in that dispute are due to resume on Friday, whereas the subsequent spherical of talks for airport safety employees is anticipated to begin on March 26.
Published – March 10, 2025 03:40 pm IST
