Lufthansa to cancel 80 to 90 percent of flights as cabin crew strike hits all German airports
Lufthansa expects to cancel 80 to 90 percent of its flights on Friday April 10 as cabin crew union UFO stages a one-day walkout across all German airports. Austrian, SWISS and other Group subsidiaries are unaffected. Passengers can rebook free of charge or request a full refund.
Lufthansa's cabin crew union UFO has called a one-day strike at Lufthansa and subsidiary Lufthansa CityLine for Friday April 10, running from 12:01am to 10pm and affecting all departures from Frankfurt and Munich. Lufthansa expects 80 to 90 percent of all its flights to be cancelled.
CityLine cabin crew are also called out at nine German airports — Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Bremen, Stuttgart, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Hanover. Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, SWISS and other Lufthansa Group subsidiaries are not affected by the strike.
The walkout is the latest in a series of industrial actions that have disrupted Lufthansa operations throughout early 2026. Pilots staged a two-day strike in mid-March over pension disputes, and the two unions staged a joint walkout in February. Neither dispute has reached a resolution.
Passengers holding Lufthansa tickets for April 10 can rebook free of charge on another Lufthansa Group flight between April 8 and 17, or request a full refund. Domestic German passengers may exchange flight tickets for Deutsche Bahn rail travel at no charge.
The timing compounds an already difficult week for Lufthansa. The airline remains suspended from Dubai through at least May 31 under EASA's conflict zone bulletin, with tomorrow's EASA review now widely expected to extend rather than lift that restriction following Air France's decision this morning to push its own Dubai suspension to May 3.
