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Throughout the summer of 2025, a succession of European carriers began withdrawing capacity from transatlantic routes to the United States, citing a sustained collapse in bookings that went well beyond the seasonal fluctuations airlines typically manage. The retreat — led by Lufthansa, British Airways, KLM, Iberia, and Norse Atlantic, among others — reflected a confluence of economic anxiety, geopolitical discomfort, and declining consumer confidence in travelling to the US, and prompted one of the sharpest reappraisals of North Atlantic route networks in years.

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On 10 March 2025, the Ver.di trade union orchestrated a 24-hour warning strike at 13 German airports, bringing the country’s aviation network almost entirely to a standstill and disrupting the travel plans of more than half a million passengers. The action — the largest coordinated airport strike in Germany in recent years — was designed to demonstrate the union’s resolve ahead of ongoing wage negotiations covering airport security workers and a broader group of 2.5 million public-sector employees, and it succeeded in causing precisely the scale of disruption that Ver.di intended.

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