Air-traffic controllers to strike at Frankfurt tomorrow

About 200 personnel will take part in the stoppage for about seven hours.

Air-traffic controllers tomorrow will stage a strike at Germany’s biggest airport in Frankfurt over a pay dispute,the union announced.

About 200 personnel will take part in the stoppage for about seven hours from 1930 IST at Frankfurt airport,also Europe’s third largest hub,the German union of air-traffic controllers,GdF,today said.

It would affect staff who guide planes from their parking positions,it said.

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The union is locked in a pay battle with Fraport,which owns and manages the western German airport and has refused mediation proposals,a GdF spokesman said.

Fraport has assured travelers that it has taken special measures to minimize the disruption as much as possible and said it would release more information later in the day.

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