Airlines
Lufthansa Strike Adds to Europe’s Air Travel Chaos
German trade union Ver.di has called on 20,000 Lufthansa ground staff to stage a “warning” strike on July 27 as peak summer travel in Europe is disrupted.
Ground crew at Lufthansa LEOS will join several other service workers in a walkout on Wednesday at airports across Germany. (Photo: Lufthansa Group)
Ground crew at Lufthansa LEOS will join several other service workers in a walkout on Wednesday at airports across Germany. (Photo: Lufthansa Group)

A strike called by the German trade union Ver.di has forced Lufthansa to cancel most of its schedule for Wednesday, including more than 1,000 flights at its main Frankfurt and Munich hubs. The industrial action, which will involve some 20,000 employees of the logistics, engineering, services, technical, and cargo subsidiaries of the airline across the country, marks the latest major disruption to hit air travel across the continent this summer, as airlines and airports struggle with staff shortages amid a strong uptick of post-Covid demand and as unions seize the opportunity to demand better working conditions and pay increases for their members. Besides Lufthansa, rival airlines SAS, British Airways, KLM, Ryanair, and EasyJet have faced strikes or strike threats from ground workers or crew in recent weeks.


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