Fight cancellations due to strikes – how to prevent chaos

The year 2014 unfortunately witnessed numerous airline strikes. It is becoming more common for airline unions to announce such strikes at short notice, making it more difficult for travel agencies to notify travelers in a timely manner. An official press announcement on Sunday for a strike on Monday – as it was the case with last Lufthansa Union strike – makes it extremely challenging for Airline-Call-Centers, Travel Managers and Business Travel Agencies.

How can travelers better prepare themselves for such situations?

A number of airlines, as Lufthansa or Austrian Airlines, offer an automatic SMS service with notifications concerning flight cancellations or delays.  We therefore kindly ask you to provide the traveler’s mobile phone number when submitting the traveler profile form for new staff members (an additional box has been created) or with the next booking so we can store it in the existing traveler profile.