Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Many airlines give hotels for MX and other situations when it's their fault, but not weather, strikes, etc.
EU261 has a duty of care provision that would have forced LH to cover you at FRA during hurricane Sandy. I'm not sure whether this extends to strikes.
It wasn't LH, it was SQ, but, oh, yes. The airport hotel (for people who know FRA, it's the giant one across the bridge) was packed: LH, SQ, a few others. It was interesting, almost like a detective novel. You got to meet a lot of people at breakfast and over dinner.
I don't know whether LH had duty to provide hotel and food during the strikes, but they did. Maybe it was a small way to save face. When we got to a (dead) FRA, they took us straight to the desk where they re-ticketed us and gave us the hotel vouchers. They were friendly and happy to assist, and asked if we had ever seen FRA this empty. Umm, no, but we'd still like to get home.