Black day for passengers of Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings. Hundreds of flights are canceled from Monday to Wednesday due to a three-day strike. Not the entire Eurowings fleet is affected. FOCUS online says what affected travelers and passengers must consider.
A three-day strike by pilots at the airline Eurowings began at midnight.
According to the airport, 102 of the 171 Eurowings flights planned for Monday were canceled at Düsseldorf Airport.
43 flights were canceled at Cologne/Bonn Airport, 40 in Stuttgart and 58 in Hamburg. The airline assumes that around 230 of the 400 planned flights can be carried out nationwide on Monday.
Passengers were asked to find out about the status of their flight on the Eurowings website or via the Eurowings app.
Flights operated by Eurowings Europe and the airline Eurowings Discover are not affected by the strike. The Eurowings pilots had already gone on strike for a day on October 6th. Around half of the 500 planned flights were canceled and up to 30,000 passengers were affected.
What do affected travelers have to consider?
If a flight is canceled due to a strike or is delayed by more than three hours, the airline must offer travelers alternative transport to their destination – for example by rebooking on another flight.
This also applies if the passenger is denied boarding because he cannot reach the aircraft because the security checkpoint is unmanned. In many cases, airlines automatically rebook customers on a later flight.
What is the Eurowings pilots’ strike about?
The union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) demands above all a limitation of the maximum flight duty times and an extension of the rest periods of the pilots.
At the beginning of September, a pilots’ strike at the parent company almost completely paralyzed Lufthansa’s flight operations. It was about wage demands of the VC.
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