A 24-hour strike at seven German airports, including Frankfurt and Munich, was set to affect nearly 300,000 passengers on Friday, as unionised workers pressed for higher wages and threatened a summer of 'chaos' if their demands were not met.
"We really haven't had such an escalation through strike action," ADV's Ralph Beisel told broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. "When we look at the airport terminals this morning, it reminds us more of the worst days of the coronavirus and less of a warning strike."
German trade union Verdi announced the strike on Wednesday after it said collective bargaining efforts for ground service staff, public sector officials and aviation security workers had made little progress."If nothing is done about pay now, we will all be in for another chaotic summer," Verdi Deputy Chair Christine Behle told Inforadio on Friday. "It's about sending a really strong signal.
The carrier declined to give an estimate of the cost of the strike but has on previous occasions said such action costs it 10-15 million euros a day. The head of Verdi, Frank Werneke, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper that strike action could expand to hospitals and garbage collection.
Reporting by Klaus Lauer and Lisa Jucca; writing by Miranda Murray and Matthias Williams; editing by Jason Neely and Sharon Singleton
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