Due to a lack of staff, Lufthansa and Eurowings have to cancel hundreds of flights in July 2022. At the Lufthansa alone, around 900 connections were canceled at the Munich and Frankfurt am Main hubs and removed from the reservation system. The reason for this is that the airline itself, as well as service providers, have too few staff available at many airports. At Lufthansa, the cuts mainly affect the busy travel days of Friday, Saturday and Sunday during the holiday season. Around five percent of the total capacity that had been planned for the weekends has been canceled. According to the company, the reason is not a lack of demand, but a lack of staff. This affects not only Lufthansa itself, but also, for example, security companies that carry out checks on behalf of the authorities, apron activities and other services at airports. The subsidiary Eurowings also had to revise its 2022 summer flight schedule. The low-cost airline canceled hundreds of flights in the calendar month of July 2022 alone and took them off sale. The aim is to ensure that flight operations can be carried out stably - especially during the summer holidays. The entire industry is currently suffering from an acute shortage of staff. At the beginning of the pandemic, many employers laid off numerous employees or, for example in Germany, fobbed them off with the extremely low short-time work allowance in Germany. Many could not live on the latter and therefore reoriented themselves in other industries. Although there are many vacancies at airports, airlines and service providers, the companies only receive a few applications. Confidence in the “safe employer aviation” seems to have been permanently damaged by the pandemic and the behavior of many employers.