Overview
- Ufo’s cabin crew strike, which ran Friday from 12:01 a.m. to 10 p.m., halted all Lufthansa departures from Frankfurt and Munich and stopped CityLine takeoffs at nine German airports.
- Fraport reported 580 of 1,350 flight movements canceled in Frankfurt, with about three quarters of Lufthansa departures scrapped and tens of thousands of travelers affected.
- Lufthansa rolled out a special schedule and shifted capacity to Eurowings, Swiss, Austrian, Brussels Airlines, Discover and others, as HR chief Michael Niggemann called the walkout an “irresponsible escalation.”
- Ufo demands relief in the framework contract for roughly 18,000 cabin crew and a social agreement for about 800 CityLine employees, with CityLine slated for closure and replacement by Lufthansa City Airlines.
- This is the third major Lufthansa stoppage of 2026 after two pilot strikes, and affected passengers can rebook or get refunds and EU compensation for long delays.