A few hours after the bloodless end of the hostage situation, Hamburg Airport resumed normal operations as planned from 6 a.m. on Monday morning. The first landing was scheduled for 7:25 am.
According to the schedule, all machines should start as planned on Monday. 152 takeoffs and 162 landings are planned for that day.
The federal police, responsible for checking passengers and their luggage, also resumed normal activities. “We are working normally,” said a spokesperson.
The airport was closed for more than twenty hours on Saturday evening after an armed man drove his car onto the airport platform around 8 p.m. There he threw “some kind of Molotov cocktail” out of the car. He had his four-year-old daughter in the car – apparently due to a custody dispute with his mother. The man turned himself in to the police on Sunday afternoon.
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A total of 3,200 passengers were affected by the evacuation on Saturday. According to the airport, 286 flights – 139 departures and 147 arrivals – were actually scheduled for the entire Sunday with around 34,500 passengers.
Flight operations had already resumed on Sunday after the police operation ended around 5:30 p.m. There were still cancellations and delays until the end of operations.
Source: Krone
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