2023-04-22 17:15:04
Swiss flights affected
If you fly to Berlin on Monday, you need more patience than usual
First the Deutsche Bahn on Friday, now Berlin Brandenburg Airport next Monday: there are currently busy strikes in Germany.
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Justin Arber
Letizia Vecchio
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As early as March 13, 2023, a warning strike by the Verdi union paralyzed air traffic at Berlin Brandenburg Airport.
IMAGO/Manngold
Next Monday the time has come again: Verdi members will stop working because they are demanding higher wages. Previously, there had already been strikes at many other German airports.
IMAGO/Andreas Franke
A total of seven Swiss flights are also affected by the strike, a media spokesman told 20 minutes. These are exclusively return flights from Berlin Brandenburg to Zurich.
IMAGO/Jochen Eckel
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The Verdi union has called new warning strikes at Berlin Brandenburg Airport for next Monday.
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A total of seven Swiss return flights are affected by the warning strike.
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New strikes could also soon threaten Deutsche Bahn.
At Berlin Brandenburg Airport, no passenger flights will take off on Monday due to a warning strike. The Verdi trade union has called on employees in the aviation security area, in passenger control and in personnel and goods control to stop working from 3.30 a.m. until midnight. The airport then announced on Saturday that no passenger flight would be able to depart from BER.
Arrivals could also be affected, the respective airline decides on this, said an airport spokesman. Passengers are called upon to obtain regular information from the airlines about their trips over the next few days.
The warning strike at the capital’s airport joins a long list of work stoppages, especially in traffic, in recent weeks. Only on Thursday and Friday were there warning strikes at the airports in Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn and Hamburg, and on Friday also at the airports in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden. The warning strikes led to numerous flight cancellations, affecting tens of thousands of people. There was still a strike at Baden Airport on Saturday.
A total of seven Swiss flights affected
At the request of 20 minutes, the Swiss media office informed that flights between Zurich and Berlin Brandenburg were also affected because of the strike: “Seven return flights from Berlin Brandenburg to Zurich will not be operated, but the respective outbound flights from Zurich to Berlin Brandenburg can be carried out on Monday carried out as planned,” explains media spokesman Michael Stief.
Passengers who gave their e-mail address or telephone number when booking will be proactively informed and, if they wish, rebooked. However, if you have booked through a travel agency, you should contact them. Swiss tries to keep the inconvenience as low as possible.
Also more warning strikes in rail traffic
Rail traffic was already standing still for hours on Friday morning because the collective bargaining between the railway and transport union EVG and 50 railway companies faltered. The union had called for a walkout for eight hours to increase the pressure on employers before the next negotiations. The next talks between the EVG and Deutsche Bahn are scheduled for next Tuesday – but a solution to the collective bargaining conflict is considered extremely unlikely. The EVG has already threatened that there could be further warning strikes.
The background to the airport warning strikes on Thursday, Friday and Monday are negotiations on surcharges for night, Saturday, Sunday and public holiday work and regulations on overtime pay for security and service staff. Talks have been going on between Verdi and the Federal Association of Aviation Security Companies (BDLS) for some time.
“We once again urge the BDLS to submit a negotiable offer on April 27th and 28th and not to play for time, otherwise there is a risk of further strikes in air traffic in May and at Pentecost,” said Wolfgang Pieper from the Verdi am union Saturday according to notification.
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