Germany’s Hamburg air strike cancels more than 60 flights

German airport of Hamburg started a strike today, which lead to cancel  more than 60 flight departures and arrivals from 388 scheduled flights today.

The Hamburg airport administration told the Reference that the strike began today in the early hours of workers of the ground services staff working at the airport, which calls on their union to raise their monthly wages and demands of the union estimated at more than 270 euros per month per worker for more than one thousand and fifty workers.

The union did not receive even tentative approval, leading ground service personnel, including the staff inspecting the strike, from Monday to work, causing considerable paralysis in the take-off of many flights from and to Hamburg airport. Hamburg airport appealed to travelers to look for other means such as trains to reach their goals with the airport management and companies based on these actions losses and compensation for passengers who were affected by this strike.

Last January, the same union joined its staff at six different airports in Germany for a full day strike, which resulted in heavy losses suffered by various airports. One month earlier, a strike by railway officials was for the same reason, raising monthly wages for employees.