A complete warning strike at eleven German airports will cause enormous problems, not only in Germany itself, but also in Austria. 45 flights between Vienna and German airports are canceled, as Vienna Airport announced on Sunday. Countless flights between German airports and Graz, Salzburg, Linz, Innsbruck and Klagenfurt are also hit.
From Vienna alone we go to Munich six times on normal days, five times to Stuttgart, eleven times to Frankfurt, each seven times to Düsseldorf and Hamburg and twice to Hanover and Leipzig. There are no flights between Vienna and Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Bremen and Hanover due to strike on March 10. Vienna Airport recommends travelers to find out more about their flights booked on the websites of their booked airline or at their tour operator.
According to Orf Salzburg, all eight starts and seven landings to and from Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Düsseldorf were canceled at Salzburg airport. The other regional airports are also influenced by the strikes. In Styria, “significant limitations” are expected in air traffic and Graz. The six flight connections between Linz and Frankfurt have also been removed. Germany flights from Innsbruck and Klagenfurt are also affected.
AUA flight guests who have booked a flight from or to Germany and who have given the mobile number or e -mail address while booking are immediately informed of flight adjustments and re -booking.
The work of the employees of public services and land traffic services starts at midnight. Hamburg airport was also paralyzed on Sunday. The union had only announced the start of the excellent 30 minutes in advance to achieve more effect.
Airport Association speaks about a “new dimension”
According to an initial estimate of the ADV Airport Association, it is expected that more than 3,400 flights will fail on Monday, around 510,000 passengers cannot start their journeys or at least not as planned. ADV -aldermen director Ralph Beisel spoke about a horror scenario for passengers in relation to the strikes in public service: “To hit eleven locations at the same time, has a new dimension”. The warning strikes had “many reaching consequences for individual mobility and economic processes”.
The largest German airport in Frankfurt am Main, for example, warned on its website: “All tasks that make full flight activities possible are exposed to the strike. A start of the trip in Frankfurt will not be possible. Passengers are not even allowed to come to the airport on Monday. The change of transit passengers is “influenced by the effects of the effects” and cannot take place.
Do passengers get their money back?
In the case of three-hour delays at the destination and short cancellations in the short term, the EU regulations for the flight regulation for compensation payments from 250 to 600 euros per passenger under certain conditions. In a sense, if passengers can demand these funds in the case of flight problems due to a warning strike, just depends on who’s strike is. If parts of the airport staff are in a warning strike on Monday, the prospects for compensation are rather bad. The case can be different if employees of an airline go strike. In any case, the right to replacement transport and regardless of whether passengers are also entitled to compensation.
That is why it is a strike
The trade union calls up to eight percent more wages in the tariff negotiations of the federal government and the municipalities, but at least 350 euros more, as well as three extra days off. The municipal employers are too expensive. The core requirements would mean extra costs for the municipalities of around eleven percent or almost 15 billion euros per year, said the general director of the Association of the Municipal Employers’ Associations (VKA), Niklas Benrath. This cannot be displayed in the light of an empty cash register and high debts. The required extra days are particularly critical. They would lead to limitations in the municipal services, said the representative of the association. However, employers have not submitted a specific offer so far
Source: Krone
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