Strikes at airports affect thousands of passengers. More than 200,000 people had to change their travel plans because of the strike.
At airports such as Hanover, Stuttgart, Berlin and Hamburg, all departures were canceled and landings were thinned out. The only two airports where you can fly are Munich and Nuremberg, Lufthansa warned its guests. In total, Verdi called on employees at eleven airports to stop work in order to achieve higher salaries for the approximately 25,000 private security service providers.