Biggest strike in 30 years starts in Germany

Germany awoke to widespread travel chaos on Monday, after two of the country's biggest transport unions called a nationwide strike. It is the biggest strike the country has seen in 30 years.

Almost all flights are canceled at the airports of Hamburg, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Leipzig, Munich, Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main. The airport of Berlin was not affected by the strike.

Local transport will be disrupted in seven of Germany’s sixteen federal states. These include some of the country’s most populous states: Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saxony.