Strike cancels all flights at Berlin Brandenburg airport
28 January 2023 |
3:19 pm
Around 300 flights that were scheduled to take off and land at the Berlin airport on Wednesday were cancelled. It is the first time since 2018 a labor strike led to so many flight cancellations.
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