thousands of airline passengers had to accept in the past year, delays and failures. So that this tragedy is not repeated, there was the end of 2018, an air travel peaks. Today, a first balance sheet is drawn up.
The Drama in the past year, a mix of planning mistakes by the Airlines, which had been prepared in accordance with the Air-Berlin-Bankruptcy re-demonstrated associated with personnel shortages at the Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS), and extreme weather. All of the met a the airport infrastructure, which acts here and there at the Limit – and that makes many customers to the passenger control points to despair.
All the Participants was clear: the trust of the passengers must be recovered. The Federal Minister of transport, Andreas Scheuer (CSU), said the theme for the boss thing. Last October, he reiterated the economy and politics in Hamburg.
With sufficient pressure in the boiler, the air travel summit, adopted 25 measures to be taken against delays and flight cancellations. “A season like in the summer of 2018 must not be repeated, and because we all pull together,” says Scheuer after the Meeting. But what of the promise?
Today, the top representatives come together in the Hanseatic city again. The second aviation summit is to review what has been done. In the run-up to abzustimm the end of the Press release has been circulating for days between politics and the economy. The Meeting is meant to convey determination. Striking: this time not trade unions with a seat at the table. Critical sounds come straight from there.
delays and flight cancellations were in 2018, many of the passengers verzeifeln.
lack of staff for the in-flight fuse
in The sky, it is again closely. The trade Union of air traffic controllers (GdF) expects “no improvement in the delay situation.” “Quite the contrary,” complains the Federal Chairman Matthias Maas: “Should be double to the delay portion of the DFS this year, more than so, one could describe this as a success – however, this expectation appears to be unrealistic.”
Maas expects that each Crossing will on average have at least five minutes late. The can vertebrae all the flight plans by each other. “Alone in the Center of Karlsruhe, which controls the upper air space, a lack of 140 pilots,” said Maas in an interview with tagesschau.de.
He criticized management failure at the highest point of the DFS and complains about “years of misguided austerity policies”. There have been times when more than 200 pilots had been trained. In the past years, the number of Academy graduates have located, but in the case of the 50. The pilot shortage is not a short term fix, says Maas. Now pilots would be asked, in the summer of Overtime. The calls of DFS and GdF are scheduled by the employer, but only in April.