Flights from Helsinki-Vantaa to Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt have been canceled from today. The reason is the airport strikes in Germany.
12:26•Updated 12:41
Air traffic between Finland and Germany will be disrupted on Friday due to a strike at Germany’s major airports.
Based on the announcement by the trade union Verdi, the airports of Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Dormund, Hanover and Bremen would be the target of strikes. In total, more than 2,300 flights from these airports are canceled.
Frankfurt and Munich airports canceled all passenger traffic from Friday due to strikes, German DW writes (you switch to another service).
Helsinki-Vantaa airport pages (you will switch to another service) based on this, all flights to Frankfurt, Munich or Hamburg have been canceled from Friday.
Finnair announces that it has canceled a total of 12 flights on Friday due to a strike by airport workers in Germany. The cancellations apply to outbound and return flights to Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg airports.
Finnair has been in contact with all passengers affected by the cancellations. Most of them have received a rerouted flight for Saturday.
The strike will last 24 hours and will affect almost 300,000 air passengers, according to the Reuters news agency. The reason for the strike is Verde’s salary increase demands for, among other things, airport personnel and personnel responsible for air travel safety.
The strike also affects the security conference starting today in Munich. Among other things, the Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu had to fly to Austria after the cancellation of his scheduled flight, from where he traveled the rest of the way by car for four hours.
Story updated on February 17, 2023 at 12:40 STT’s information on Finnair’s canceled flights updated to story.