The strike yesterday was by ground personnel. The bulk of employees in other words. Not just check in or ticketing staff, also operations, despatchers, admin etc etc. I believe some 33,000 in Germany. Last year was the flight attendants, three years ago the pilots. Its all part of the choreography between union and management when collective agreements come up for re-negotiation. Most times a warn strike is announced days in advance and the company then takes remedial action to minimise disruption, informing customers through all available communication channels (and in this day and age there are many) If passengers turned up at the airport yesterday then they probably live in a cave. A contentious point in this round of negotiations is the company's plan to cut some perks notably vacation allowance and Christmas bonus, which for most employees count not as a cherry on the pie but the pie itself as part of their renumeration package to pay mortgages, utility bills etc etc. So its tantamount to a pay cut. Did I also mention management proposes increasing working hours. So we see where things are heading. Another grievance is the potential out-sourcing of frontline staff to a handling agent which has already been done at the smaller stations. Read; cheap labour. Though its hard to see how the union will get such a guarantee in collective agreement. As to your question spongeblue, I think the company did their homework to see how many flights could operate with the given contigent of available staff and crucially which were economically feasible. These departed from the hubs of FRA and MUC. Otherwise aircraft that were already abroad stayed there 24 hours and didn't return to base, so avoiding the bottleneck and chaos of stranded connecting passengers. Things should be back to normal by Tuesday afternoon. So happy flying all you potential Lufthansa non-revers