Overview
- Cabin crew represented by UFO stopped work Friday between 00:01 and 22:00, prompting widespread cancellations at Lufthansa’s Frankfurt and Munich hubs.
- Scale of disruption was steep at Frankfurt, where nearly 75% of roughly 350 scheduled Lufthansa departures were canceled, and airport operator Fraport counted about 580 cancellations across all airlines affecting some 72,000 passengers.
- CityLine cabin crew also walked out at nine German airports, leading to knock-on cancellations in cities including Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Hanover, Bremen, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Leipzig/Halle.
- Lufthansa said it contacted affected customers and leaned on other group carriers to keep people moving, with SWISS deploying larger jets on Zurich–Frankfurt and Zurich–Munich flights to add seats.
- UFO says talks have stalled over a new framework contract that would set more predictable shifts, longer notice periods and a social plan for about 800 CityLine cabin crew, while CEO Jens Ritter called the stoppage “really hurts” during the Easter return rush and urged a return to negotiations in what is the airline’s third major labor disruption since February.