Frankfurt Airport strike

Readers should take care if passing through Frankfurt Airport during the next period.  Due to industrial action by ground staff last week just over 1,000 flights have been cancelled since Thursday.  The vast majority of these were Lufthansa, which has mostly scrapped European services to give priority to intercontinental passengers.

The GdF trade union said in a statement that the strike would start at 20:00 GMT Sunday 26 February until 04:00 GMT on Thursday 1 March.

Frankfurt Airport is Europe's third-busiest after Heathrow and Charles de Gaulle, with about 1,300 flight movements per day, more than half of them by Lufthansa.

A spokesman for Lufthansa said that, like with the previous walkouts, long haul flights would be given priority and a list of Monday's flight cancellations is now available on its website.  Lufthansa was the worst hit by the strikes that started on 16 February and initially ran until 22 February.

Frankfurt Airport has been using former ground crew to replace striking workers, with the number of flight cancellations dropping each day as staff became used to the role again. www.lufthansa.com

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