According to the airport operator Fraport, operations at Frankfurt Airport on the first holiday weekend ran without long waiting times, despite an estimated 180,000 passengers a day.
On Wednesday, however, new bottlenecks are also to be expected in Frankfurt: In the wage dispute with Deutsche Lufthansa, the Verdi union called on the around 20,000 employees on the ground to go on a warning strike.
Jochen Remert
Airport editor and correspondent Rhein-Main-Süd.
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The walkout is scheduled to begin at 3:45 a.m. on Wednesday and end at 6 a.m. on Thursday.
Since employees who are waiting for aircraft and others who are maneuvering aircraft with tow tractors are also called on to go on warning strikes, Verdi is assuming that there will be considerable delays and flight cancellations.
Lufthansa expresses incomprehension about the strike
The Verdi leadership cited “extreme pressure” on employees as the reason for the warning strike, which was mainly caused by mismanagement.
Lufthansa HR Manager Michael Niggemann initially expressed his incomprehension: After only two days of negotiations, a strike of this length and at all locations could no longer be described as a warning strike.
The call for a strike is also incomprehensible because Lufthansa has offered “high and socially balanced pay increases”, although it still has to shoulder the burden of the Corona crisis and other imponderables for the global economy.