Lufthansa Friday flight cancellations see protests from flyers, mainly students, at Delhi Airport

NEW DELHI: There was ruckus at Delhi Airport in the early hours of Friday when nearly 700 passengers — mostly students headed to North America — realised their connecting Lufthansa flights to Frankfurt and Munich had been cancelled. Many of these passengers resorted to sloganeering both inside and outside the terminal and police had to be called in to control the situation say sources.
Lufthansa, which has been among European carriers facing strike calls in past few months by various sections of organised employee unions like ground staff, cabin crew and pilots, had on Thursday announced cancellation of nearly 800 flights that were to operate on Friday (Sept 2). The impact of this one-day strike is expected to last till Sunday (Sept 4) in terms of accommodating affected passengers on other options.
Scores of Indian students head out to join colleges abroad every fall and the agitated ones were clearly upset at not being able to join their varsities on time this fall.