Originally Posted by UPI

Frankfurt, Germany, airport operator Fraport said a Deutsche Lufthansa strike had disrupted other airlines, as too many planes were stuck on the tarmac.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Europe's largest airline, in terms of number of passengers carried, had been hit by a half-day flight attendants strike.

That had left so many planes on the airport's tarmac that Fraport said flights from other airports that had not yet taken off would not be permitted to land.

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Originally Posted by Deutsche Welle

Lufthansa management appears to have been caught somewhat off guard by the scale of the strike, having planned for just 64 flight cancellations. At one point, Frankfurt Airport closed for incoming flights from other European airports due to a lack of parking space on the apron. A spokesman for the company that operates the airport, Fraport, said a total of 230 flights had been cancelled, an apparent indication that Lufthansa wasn't the only airline affected.