At Germany's largest airport, Frankfurt am Main, cargo handling is temporarily severely restricted on weekends. The airport informed cargo customers that some cargo flights can no longer be accepted at weekends.

“The handling capacity of our ground handling services (BVD) is severely limited due to significant traffic peaks, numerous flight plan shifts and limited human resources. As a further measure to relieve ground handling services during these traffic peaks and to stabilize handling in FRA, the BVD is currently asking certain cargo airlines not to operate flights via Frankfurt with immediate effect and until the end of August 2022," reads a letter from the airport to airlines .

Some airlines were asked to use other airports for their flights or to move them to times with less traffic. The background is that there are not enough staff available for cargo handling.

Frankfurt am Main is the home base of Lufthansa Cargo. The airport is also served by many other providers and is considered an important transshipment point for freight of almost all kinds. It is also noteworthy that a particularly large number of cargo flights are carried out on Friday and Saturday traffic days. Almost all providers are affected.