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The strike coincided with the start of the Munich Security Conference, with more than 40 heads of state and 60 ministers expected to attend

A 24-hour strike at seven German airports, including Frankfurt and Munich, was set to affect nearly 300,000 passengers on Friday, as unionised workers pressed for higher wages and threatened a summer

German airport association ADV called the strike action "completely unacceptable", saying it would affect around 295,000 passengers and more than 2,300 flights in total.

The strike coincided with the start of the Munich Security Conference, with more than 40 heads of state and 60 ministers expected to attend

The websites of seven German airports were hit by a suspected cyberattack on Thursday, the ADV airport association said, a day after a major IT failure at Lufthansa left thousands of passengers stranded. Among the airports affected were Dusseldorf, Nuremberg and Dortmund, but websites...

A one-day strike by ground crew and other workers paralysed Berlin’s BER airport on Wednesday leading to the cancellation of all 300 take-offs and landings of passenger flights.

The chaos at Cologne-Bonn and Düsseldorf airports is finally to be brought to an end. The German government now wants passenger checks to be managed by the airports instead of the federal police. Talks are to start soon.

Flight cancellations and long queues at Germany's understaffed airports, a lack of waiters and hotel workers: Germany's hospitality sector is looking increasingly desperate, as the European summer holiday season begins.

BERLIN, June 27 (Xinhua) -- German airports struggled with rising passenger numbers on Monday as the school holidays kicked off in the country most populous sta

German airports struggle with rising passenger numbers as holidays begin-