The company that runs Frankfurt Airport has already rehired nearly 1,000 new ground handling workers after cutting around 4,000 jobs.
Problems at Frankfurt Airport, Germany’s busiest air transport hub, due to lack of staffare unlikely to ease in the coming months, Fraport, the company that manages the airport, announced.
“The problem is not going to get smaller as we go forward, even though we are hiring, I say that very openly,” Fraport CEO Stefan Schulte said during a press briefing last Tuesday night in Frankfurt.
He stated that the problems due to the lack of workers will continue in the next two or three months.
Fraport has already rehired almost 1,000 new employees in ground services, having cut approx 4,000 jobs during the pandemic.
Schulte said the situation will not be resolved even if a few hundred new workers or seasonal workers from abroad are deployed.
The number of people employed at German airports recently fell to a seven-year low, the federal statistics office said today, citing preliminary data.
Schulte apologized to passengers for the long delays, but said Fraport and other companies that manage airports had been caught off guard by the rapid increase in travel demand and said it was difficult to grow businesses of an airport in such a short time.
On peak days, crowds are as large as they were before the coronavirus pandemic hit the airline industry, he said, adding: “That surprised us. This is where I openly admit that we were wrong.”
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