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Frankfurt 15 Jan 2019 - security staff strike - BA customer guidelines
There is some discussion in the Lufthansa-etc forum regarding strike action by security staff at FRA proposed for Tuesday 15 January 2019. The airport has now advised people to avoid connecting via Frankfurt. Regulars will know that the layout of FRA means that security checkpoints are big factors in slowing down progress to the gate. Some other airports are also affected Leipzig (LEJ), Dresden (DRS), Erfurt (ERF), Bremen (BRE) and Hannover (HAJ), only the last one has BA services
If you are a BA customer with a 125 ticket, including codeshares, you can now move your flight to alternative dates to avoid 15 January. The dates allowed are 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18 January. They aren't allowing refunds on these services, or re-routes, but will have to do so if the flight is cancelled. My guess is that all flights will be scrubbed on Monday afternoon unless there is some developments, and the Monday + Wednesday night stops may be at risk too. The last set of guidelines n this area asked agents not to rebook to DUS since it was suggested they would go on strike, but this current guidelines doesn't mention this, even for HAJ.