Munich - German airport strike hurts passengers
The strike coincided with the start of the Munich Security Conference, with more than 40 heads of state and 60 ministers expected to attend
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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 for Germany's biggest airports in Frankfurt,…