Lufthansa flights in Bremen and Lower Saxony canceled – Economy in Bremen: Latest news

Lufthansa is canceling a total of 1,300 flights with around 180,000 passengers affected due to the announced 48-hour strike by the flight attendants. (Matthias Balk / dpa)

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Air travelers must be prepared for restrictions starting this Thursday. The reason is the 48 hour strike by the Lufthansa flight attendants. The airline is therefore canceling a total of 1,300 flights over the next two days. Passengers in northern Germany are also affected. At the airports in Bremen, Hamburg and Hanover, a number of connections to the Munich and Frankfurt hubs were canceled.

Lufthansa canceled a total of 30 flights at Hans Koschnick Airport, 15 on Thursday and 15 on Friday. Connections to the important hubs in Munich and Frankfurt are affected. This Thursday, for example, only the flight to Frankfurt at 6.35 a.m. takes place – all other connections to the metropolis on the Main are canceled. Munich will still be served four times that day. According to the emergency plan, there will be no trips to Frankfurt on Friday. Connections between the Lufthansa subsidiaries Eurowings and Swiss to Stuttgart and Zurich are not affected.

“We recommend all travelers to contact the airline in advance and check their flight status on the company’s website,” said Andrea Hartmann, spokeswoman for Bremen Airport. The situation is very similar in Hamburg and Hanover. According to Lufthansa information, around 40 connections to and from Munich and Frankfurt will fail at both airports.

On Wednesday, Lufthansa announced on its website that it would rebook all affected passengers for other flights by evening. If you have a ticket for the strike days Thursday and Friday, you can rebook it once for a Lufthansa Group flight within the next ten days. For connections within Germany, airline tickets can also be converted into train tickets on their homepage. Alternatively, tickets can be returned entirely. Travelers will then get the purchase price back. According to the company, a total of 180,000 passengers worldwide are affected by the strike.

Also on Wednesday, Lufthansa failed to legally prevent the strike by the Ufo union. In the first instance, the Frankfurt Labor Court rejected the company’s urgent application, as well as a short-term appeal. According to a cursory assessment, the collective agreements had been terminated correctly and the strike decision was valid, explained the presiding judge. The judge rejected attacks by Lufthansa lawyers against the union’s short-term change in the work camp regulations. These are internal regulations of the UFO without external impact. There are also no obvious doubts about the ability to pay, which the UFO Federal Labor Court last confirmed in a judgment in 2014.

In the court hearing, Lufthansa had offered the union immediate preliminary negotiations on tariff issues, but these could only be finalized with the newly elected UFO board from February 15, 2020. The current board of directors continues to be rejected as not authorized to represent, said the Lufthansa lawyer. Ufo, on the other hand, demanded immediate collective bargaining with the current board.

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The Ufo union demands higher expenses and allowances for the 21,000 Lufthansa flight attendants as well as better access for seasonal workers in regular employment. The entire wage conflict is mainly about the question raised by the group whether UFO can still enforce collective agreements for cabin crew.

Recently, Ufo had also been open about whether the strike should be extended to other Lufthansa subsidiaries. These include Germanwings, Eurowings Germany, Lufthansa City Line and Sun Express Germany, a joint venture between Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, which fly to several destinations in Turkey from Bremen. On average, the Lufthansa Group offers around 1,540 connections a day. Of these, 580 departures to Germany and 380 to the core Lufthansa brand. The now 1,300 canceled flights also include a number of companies that are not on strike, such as Swiss, Austrian, Edelweiss or Brussels Airlines.

It is legally controversial whether passengers are entitled to compensation for flight cancellations in a strike like this. The Federal Court of Justice ruled in 2012 that a pilot strike is an exceptional circumstance. The result: the passengers affected by delays and cancellations received no compensation. However, the airline must do everything in its power to minimize the consequences of the failure. This includes a special flight schedule and rebooking.

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The European Court of Justice has ruled that an airline cannot easily rely on exceptional circumstances in a wildcat strike. So far, however, this judgment has not necessarily been applicable to regular strikes – the ECJ still has to clarify this.

Regardless of this, passengers have to be looked after by the airline should there be longer waiting times. From a delay of two hours, passengers are entitled to services such as phone calls, emails, drinks, food and, if necessary, an overnight stay in the hotel. The two-hour waiting time applies to flights of up to 1,500 kilometers. If the route is between 1,500 and 3,500 kilometers, passengers have to wait at least three hours before they can rely on the airline’s assistance. From 3,500 kilometers, there is a waiting time of four hours.

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