More than half of all flights at Munich Airport in southern Germany are set to be canceled today, Wednesday, due to a strike by ground service employees of the German airline Lufthansa amidst a dispute between workers and the company over wages.
The airport announced that around 400 departure and arrival flights out of a total of 730 flights normally operated by all airlines will be affected by the strike, emphasizing that all of these flights are operated by Lufthansa and its subsidiaries almost exclusively.
The airport further noted that this is why Terminal 2 was very quiet, while operations remained normal in Terminal 1.
The “Verdi” union for service workers in Germany also called for ground service employees at airports in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, and Dusseldorf to strike.
Lufthansa had canceled between 80 and 90% of the scheduled flights, totaling 1,000 flights, as a precautionary measure.
