Major airline cancels 34,000 flights this summer | The Sun

MORE than 34,000 flights have been scrapped this summer by one airline due to staff shortages.

German airline Lufthansa confirmed that they had to "adjust the summer flight schedule".

They cited staff shortages that are currently affecting the aviation industry.

According to local paper WirtschaftsWoche, around 34,000 will be cancelled, affecting Frankfurt and Munich Airport.

However, a spokesperson warned that more could be affected as "further daily cancellations can always be added".

This could also affect other subsidiary airlines such as Eurowings and Swiss.

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The pre-emptive cancellations hope to prevent last-minute cancellations and disruption.

Passengers who are affected will be contacted by the airline.

Sun Online Travel has contacted Lufthansa for additional comment.

Last summer, Lufthansa was forced to cancel 2,200 flights for similar reasons.

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And just last week, the airline cancelled thousands of flights due to both strike action and an airport IT failure.

German trade union Verdi called on workers at Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Dortmund, Hanover and Bremen airports to go on a 24-hour strike.

Passengers were strongly advised to refrain from travelling to the airport due to the disruption.

And construction work on a railway line in Frankurt caused an IT outage, which grounded all flights.

It's not just Lufthansa that has been forced to cancel flights in recent months.

Wizz Air confirmed that all of their flights from Cardiff Airport after they pulled out of their Welsh base.

And the cancellation of Wizz Air flights from Doncaster Sheffield Airport led to its closure last October.

Dozens of flights were also cancelled last month due to French ATC strikes.


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