After Heathrow and Schiphol, it is Frankfurt airport, whose manager is Fraport, which has announced that it wants to reduce the rate of flights passing through its hub.
This decision follows the cascading cancellations triggered by the German company Lufthansa, which has canceled nearly 6,000 flights departing from Frankfurt and Munich for this summer: “
The objective is to further stabilize air operations
” from the airport, a Fraport spokeswoman told AFP.
With this in mind, the manager "
will submit a request to the Federal Ministry of Transport at the beginning of next week to reduce hourly rotations at Frankfurt airport from 96 to 88 take-offs and landings
".
A decision hailed by Jens Ritter, director of Lufthansa, who described
Fraport's decision as "
fair ", in a press release published by the company.
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Cascading relief in Europe
Frankfurt is not the first European airport behind such a decision: while the Dutch government announced on July 4 that it wanted to reduce flights passing through Amsterdam-Schiphol airport for reasons of the fight against pollution noise, it is Heathrow airport (United Kingdom) which communicated a few days ago its intention to limit the number of daily passengers.
In question: a shortage of personnel in airports, in a context of post-covid economic recovery.
While Heathrow has announced a wave of new recruitments for November, nothing is less certain for Frankfurt, which has indicated that it wants to obtain “
further relief measures from other airlines
according to the Fraport spokesperson.
It's not going to get better: penalized by the lack of staff and calls for strikes, airlines around the world have already withdrawn from their August 2022 flight schedules more than 25,000 flights, including nearly 60% in Europe
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