Lufthansa cancels more than 3,000 flights this summer

Lufthansa cancels more than 3,000 flights this summer / In total, more than 3,000 flights are cancelled, Lufthansa announced on Thursday.

The airline had previously announced that it would cancel 900 flights to and from its hubs in Frankfurt and Munich on Fridays and weekends in July. An additional 2,200 flights are now being added, also on other days. This usually concerns flights within Europe. It is currently unclear to what extent this concerns flights to and from Belgium.

Lufthansa refers, among other things, to a lack of staff – both in-house and among service providers at the airport. Strikes in the aviation sector and the summer outbreak of the corona virus also play a role, it sounds.

Other airlines of the Lufthansa group, such as Swiss Air Lines and Eurowings, have already canceled their summer offer. Brussels Airlines also did that and canceled 148 flights.

But at Brussels Airlines it is not about a staff shortage, the company emphasized. It is a decision that should reduce the workload for staff. That intervention was not enough to stop a strike: a three-day strike at the company started on Thursday.

Many airlines and airports in Europe, which often let employees leave during the corona crisis, are struggling to find new people quickly enough as air traffic recovers.