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Lufthansa machines in Frankfurt: Mainly domestic German and European flights affected
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The airports lack staff, the handling at the airports in Germany is stuck.
In view of this situation, Lufthansa has canceled further flights.
In addition to the 900 cancellations in July, the airline will remove another 2,200 of a total of around 80,000 flights in the summer at the Frankfurt and Munich hubs from the system, Lufthansa said.
This primarily affects domestic German and European flights, but not the classic holiday destinations, which are well occupied during the holiday season.
Connections are not only canceled on weekends, as in July, but also during the week.
"In addition, there may also be changes in flight times," it said.
Air transport is struggling with staff shortages in the high season, especially in ground services, but also in some cases among flight attendants.
Lufthansa and other airlines are canceling the flights in advance and are offering alternative flights or domestic rail connections in order to avoid additional chaos at the airports.
The Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings also announced flight cancellations a few days ago.
According to the company, the reason for those failures was a high level of sick leave.
A Eurowings spokeswoman said that the increase in corona infections was not spared.
Sol/Reuters