Lufthansa to cancel 1,000 flights due to strike by flight attendants

Airport and rail workers have announced walkouts, just days after similar strikes caused disruption across Germany, Report informs referring to AP.

Strikes by Lufthansa flight attendants on March 12 and 13 will cause the cancellation of 1,000 flights.

Germany will face travel chaos again this week as many of its train and airport workers are set to stage walkouts.

On March 11 and 12, the country’s GDL union will go on strike. They represent drivers of both passenger and freight trains. Drivers of freight trains will walk out at 6pm local time on Monday and will be followed by Deutsche Bahn’s passengers train drivers at 2am on March 12.

Elsewhere, Lufthansa's cabin crew union’s strike will cause disruption at two of Germany's busiest airports, Frankfurt and Munich.

Slated to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, the walkout will affect both Lufthansa and its low-cost subsidiary, Cityline.

The strikes hitting both the rail and aviation networks in Germany come hot on the heels of recent, similarly disruptive strikes in the country.