According to experts, a new corona wave could burden the infrastructure in Germany. However, the companies at Frankfurt Airport see themselves as well equipped.
All around Frankfurt Airport, the infrastructure facilities and the largest German airline Lufthansa see themselves prepared for a new strong corona wave.
Extensive hygiene concepts are also in force for employees, said a spokeswoman for the airport operator Fraport on Tuesday. Numerous measures have been taken to ensure the operation of the largest German airport even with a larger wave of illnesses due to the new Omikron corona variant. Lufthansa and Deutsche Flugsicherung were also convinced that they could react flexibly to external disruptions to operations.
For example, Fraport separates the individual shifts of the airport fire brigade, which is essential for operations, so that the entire team does not have to be quarantined in the event of an outbreak, the spokeswoman explained. The guards also have to wear FFP2 masks.
No blanket concepts
For the rest of the company, however, there is no general procedure. “We always have to look which shifts, which activities are affected and whether people can step in,” said the spokeswoman. But there are no blanket answers or rigid concepts. Last weekend, several hundred employees were given a booster vaccination as part of a company special.
The federally owned German Air Traffic Control (DFS) has not abandoned its pandemic plan since the beginning of the Corona crisis. This includes strict hygiene and distance rules as well as vaccination offers, strict quarantine requirements and visitor bans for the functional rooms, as a DFS spokeswoman in Langen near Frankfurt reported. The air traffic controllers in particular, but also other staff, are divided into A and B teams, which are not allowed to come together. “So far we have successfully withstood the crisis,” said the spokeswoman.
In its own opinion, Lufthansa refined its existing emergency concepts and made them more flexible during the Corona crisis. “We always have reserves in the background,” said a company spokesman. The concept is constantly being adapted to current events.
Source From: Stern
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