Many Budapest flights cancelled due to widespread strike

Ground service staff of the Düsseldorf, Köln/Bonn, Stuttgart, and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden airports went on strike on Friday. As a result, many Budapest flights were cancelled.

According to airportal.hu, Eurowings cancelled all its flights to and from Budapest concerning the Düsseldorf, Köln and Stuttgart international airports. The only flight from those airports was the EW 9782/3 from Düsseldorf on Friday night.

That is the second time the members of the Ver.di trade union stopped working. The strike meant the airports had to cancel almost 700 flights. For example, in Köln/Bonn, 144 flights were cancelled out of the 148. In Düsseldorf, that figure was 264/391. The measure affected approximately 89 thousand passengers, based on the estimates of the operating companies.

The last time such a strike took place was on 13 March. We wrote about that HERE. Then, the Ver.di wanted a pay rise at the Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, and Hannover airports.