Originally, 15,000 travelers should depart from Cologne/Bonn Airport on Monday. However, due to the warning strike by the Verdi and Komba unions, more than 100 flights are cancelled. Not only the airport is affected.
A warning strike has brought flight operations at the second largest airport in North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne/Bonn, to an almost complete standstill. The airport announced that only 2 of the 136 flight movements planned for Monday took place. Only one landing from Vienna and one takeoff back to the Austrian capital was to be carried out. Most were cancelled, others diverted - this means that passengers had to drive to a different airport for departure or landed somewhere else than expected.
Cologne/Bonn Airport originally expected 15,000 passengers. At the largest airport in NRW, Düsseldorf, there were also severe restrictions on flight operations due to the warning strike, where the word "cancelled" also dominated the display boards.
The Verdi and Komba unions called for the one-day work stoppages. The background to this is the negotiations for employees in the public sector at the federal and municipal level, as well as the nationwide negotiations for employees in aviation security. In some places in NRW, the labor dispute also affected other areas of public life, such as local transport, daycare centers or offices.
