{"id":497614,"date":"2022-06-10T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T03:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=497614"},"modified":"2022-06-10T09:33:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T04:03:13","slug":"germanys-lufthansa-cancels-hundreds-of-flights-due-to-staff-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/germanys-lufthansa-cancels-hundreds-of-flights-due-to-staff-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Lufthansa cancels hundreds of flights due to staff shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Lufthansa AG canceled hundreds of summer flights due to staff shortages, underscoring the challenges facing European aviation as the industry fights to recover from the coronavirus crisis. <\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s flagship airline scrapped about 900 domestic and European short haul trips for July, including those at its namesake and Eurowings budget brands, a spokesman said. The canceled flights, which were due to take place on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, represent about 5% of the airline\u2019s typical weekend capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire aviation industry, especially in Europe, is currently suffering from bottlenecks and staff shortages,\u201d Lufthansa said in an emailed statement. \u201cThis applies to airports, ground handling services, air traffic control and also airlines.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Lufthansa AG canceled hundreds of summer flights due to staff shortages, underscoring the challenges facing European aviation as the industry fights to recover from the coronavirus crisis. Germany\u2019s flagship airline scrapped about 900 domestic and European short haul trips for July, including those at its namesake and Eurowings budget brands, a spokesman said. The canceled flights, which were due to take place on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, represent about 5% of the airline\u2019s typical weekend capacity. \u201cThe entire aviation industry, especially in Europe, is currently suffering from bottlenecks and staff shortages,\u201d Lufthansa said in an emailed statement. \u201cThis applies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}