Verdi flexes his muscles: Union forces Lufthansa to make massive cuts. More than 100,000 passengers would have to reschedule.
At the other airports in Germany, flights to and from Frankfurt and Munich in particular are canceled. Maintenance and technical units are on strike in Berlin and Hamburg, which could lead to the failure of individual aircraft. At Munich and Frankfurt, skeleton crews give priority to the flights of the foreign LufThansa sister companies Swiss, Austrian and Brussels Airlines.