Attention! Multiple Budapest Airport flights can be cancelled due to strike on Monday!
Service will stop at more than a dozen German airports on Monday due to a 24-hour warning strike. Consequently, several Budapest Airport flights will not be able to take off tomorrow; we collected them below.
Verdi trade union organises grandiose strike
Based on Deutsche Welle, the Verdi trade union will organise a grandiose warning strike affecting a dozen German airports tomorrow. Among the chief demands, a considerable wage increase and more employee day-offs are the most important. The strike will last for 24 hours, but will paralyse the airports affected and several countries, including Hungary’s Budapest Airport.
The work stoppage will affect the following international airports: Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt (Main), Cologne-Bonn, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin-Brandenburg and Leipzig-Halle. The number of passengers affected by the strike is above 510,000. The number of flights expected to be cancelled on Monday can reach 3,400. A Verdi spokesman told DW that “the walkout is necessary so that the strike’s impact can really be felt.”
Several Budapest Airport flights can also be affected
According to 444.hu, the general strike of the ground handling services at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport will affect all departures and arrivals. On an average Monday, six planes carry passengers to Berlin from Budapest Airport and back from the German capital. Eurowings, Ryanair and Wizz Air have two flights between Budapest and Berlin.
In Frankfurt (Main), where 4-5 planes commute from Budapest Airport on Mondays, passengers cannot get off or on the planes tomorrow, and the strike will almost surely affect the transit traffic. Budapest Airport has two direct Eurowings flights to Hamburg on Mondays, and the ground handling workers will go on strike.
Düsseldorf has one Eurowings flight from Budapest on Mondays. The strike will start at 2 AM on Monday, but the airport plans 338 take-offs and landings for tomorrow. Stuttgart has two Eurowings and one Wizz Air flight from Budapest on Mondays, but the strike will affect check-ins, luggage handling and air traffic. Therefore, the airport operator said they could operate some regular flights.
Interestingly, Budapest Airport has not yet shared information about any changes in its Monday schedules.
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