{"id":8139,"date":"2024-02-03T00:36:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=8139"},"modified":"2024-02-03T00:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:36:44","slug":"strikes-cancel-over-900-flights-at-german-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=8139","title":{"rendered":"Strikes cancel over 900 flights at German airports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following strike action undertaken by airport staff across Germany, a total of 918 flights to and from German airports were canceled on Thursday, February 1. That represents 32% of departures and 22% of arrivals scheduled in Germany on that day. Let\u2019s take a look at the 6 airports most affected by these cancellations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Which airports were most affected?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Frankfurt (FRA)<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Hamburg (HAM)<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Berlin (BER)<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Bremen (BRE)<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Dresden (DRS)<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Leipzig (LEJ) <\/span><\/a>were most severely impacted by flight cancellations on February 1st.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A total of 910 flights were canceled at these airports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Frankfurt (FRA) <\/span><\/a>saw the highest number of total cancellations, with 32% of departures and 25% of arriving flights canceled, a total of 301 flights. Whilst only 16 flights were canceled at <\/span>Dresden (DRS)<\/span><\/a>, this represented 100% of scheduled airport movements on that day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Which airlines were most affected?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Cancellations at German airports directly impacted 571 flights operated by 57 airlines at the above airports. The most affected airlines by number of canceled flights were <\/span>Lufthansa (LH)<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Eurowings (EW)<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Austrian (OS)<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Swiss (LX)<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Turkish Airlines (TK)<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is unsurprising that German airlines saw the most impact. <\/span>Lufthansa<\/span><\/a> canceled a total of 163 flights on February 1st, that\u2019s 15% of the airline\u2019s schedule. The majority of these flights were destined for European destinations. <\/span>Eurowings<\/span><\/a> saw a total of 92 cancellations, representing 53% of total scheduled movements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A small number of longer distance flights operated by airlines including <\/span>United<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Delta Air Lines<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Cathay Pacific<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>LATAM<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Japan Airlines<\/span><\/a> were also cancelled.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cover photo: Christian Heim, JetPhotos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Following strike action undertaken by airport staff across Germany, a total of 918 flights to and from German airports were canceled on Thursday, February 1. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t