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Climate protests at two German airports led to travel disruptions early on July 13 at the height of the busy summer holiday season, with Hamburg airport saying dozens of flights had been cancelled.
A federal police spokesperson said flights had been suspended at Hamburg airport at around 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) after nine unauthorised people entered an area near the airfield, with eight of them gluing themselves to the ground.
Though flights resumed roughly four hours later, the airport said 17 arrivals and 19 departures had been cancelled on Thursday – the start of school holidays in the region – and further delays and cancellations could not be ruled out.
The airline said it had plenty of crew and pilots but worries over air traffic meant it had cancelled 1,700 flights, mostly from its biggest base at London’s Gatwick airport, out of the 90,000 scheduled for the rest of July and August. It said 95% of affected passengers had already been re-booked on an alternative flight because it had mostly consolidated flights with multiple frequencies.
Air traffic at Dusseldorf airport in western Germany had partially resumed after disruption and delays. “Seven people gained access to the inner area of the airport and stuck themselves to the runway,” a regional police spokesperson said. “Three of them could be unstuck quickly, four others are about to be removed.”
The Letzte Generation (Last Generation) protest group, whose members have frequently glued themselves to roads and airport tarmac in Germany in a wave of civil disobedience, posted videos on Twitter of protesters sitting on the asphalt.
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