That took many Eurowings customers by surprise: cabin employees stopped work at three airports in North Rhine-Westphalia. Numerous flights have been canceled.
The cabin crew of the airline Eurowings took part in warning strikes at the airports in Düsseldorf, Cologne / Bonn and Dortmund on Friday.
According to the Verdi union, workers were called to stop work between 4:30 and 10:00 a.m. The consequences were flight cancellations and delays. The union accuses the company of a refusal to engage in collective bargaining. Verdi rejects a one-off payment offered in 2023 as insufficient.
In the morning, long queues formed in front of the Eurowings counter at Düsseldorf Airport. Numerous flights were shown as canceled on the departure board.
The Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings confirms disruptions to flight operations and isolated flight cancellations. “The strike is limited locally to North Rhine-Westphalia. All other stations, such as Hamburg, Stuttgart or Berlin, are not affected by this », it said in a message.
According to the union, 80 employees took part in the campaign in Düsseldorf. In Cologne there were 25 to 30. A crew with four employees took part in Dortmund.
At Düsseldorf Airport alone, 20 flights were canceled, including to Venice, Nice, Krakow and Munich. Other flights, such as those to Málaga, are scheduled to start in the afternoon. According to union information, none of the planned flights took off in Cologne / Bonn and Dortmund.
According to Eurowings, replacement flights should be organized across the entire Lufthansa Group. According to a spokeswoman, the flight program should be stable again from noon.
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