The union representing Lufthansa’s pilots has just announced a strike that can potentially affect all Lufthansa flights on November 23, 2016. Impacting one of the busiest travel days for US travelers.
The strike is set to start Wednesday, at 12:01a and last until midnight.
Right now it appears that ALL long haul and short haul flights operated by Lufthansa out of Germany will be impacted, but no specifics have been announced.
LH will publish an amended timetable on Tuesday, November 22 by noon local Frankfurt time (CET).
If you are traveling on the 23rd, you should call your local Lufthansa reservation office or travel agent for flight options.
How does this strike impact Lufthansa domestic flights – for example, FRA to MUC?
many of them will be impacted. Check the link I had in the post that takes you to LH’s emergency timetable for tomrw. A third of the flights are cancelled, so your odds are good that you can get between fra and muc. They might even send you via train.
I am on the LH flight 1793 from Lisbon to Munich on Nov 23 at 6 am. Do you think my flight will be affected by the strike?
We will know by noon tomrw (local FRA) time. LH will release their amended timetable by then.
All the news are saying it will be only flights FROM germany and not TO germany.
their initial release indicated flights to and from. Maybe something changed after I published the initial info.
I amended my post. I see that they updated the info after I read the initial release. Thanks for pointing it out!