Airline giant Lufthansa is planning to cut more than 3,000 flights this summer due to staff shortages and strikes.

 

The news comes as a second wave of announcements is confirmed on Thursday, and currently relates to 2,200 flights - or 3 per cent of those scheduled.

 

The company already cut back 5 per cent of summer flights on Fridays and weekends, including 900 connections. It said this was due to "bottlenecks and [a] shortage of personnel, [meaning] the entire European aviation sector suffers".

 

Lufthansa’s own low-cost carrier, Eurowings, also announced "several hundred fewer flights" in July.

 

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https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/06/24/lufthansa-is-the-latest-european-airline-to-cancel-thousands-of-flights-at-the-last-minute

 

 

Sounds very similar to the situation in the US.  Is Europe having a lot of problems with air travel?