With temporary workers from Turkey, Germany's airports wanted to “interimly solve” the acute personnel problems. The project is becoming more and more of a problem, because these can no longer be used during the main travel season. Fraport assumes that the first leased staff will not be allowed to work before September 2022. Now there is also resistance from Turkey.

Neither the industry associations nor the German government seem to have spoken to the Turkish government. Originally, the professional representation cryptically announced that they had a provider of temporary staff at hand could provide around 2.000 workers at short notice. They should have good knowledge of German and already have all the safety certificates.

The fact that this announcement was more "hot air" than serious hope of relief for the permanent employees in Germany should have been clear at the latest when it became known that every single temporary worker from Turkey had to go through the training and security checks in Germany. Furthermore, work visas must be applied for through the responsible embassy or consulate. The bureaucracy takes up a lot of time and this is one of the reasons why Fraport AG stated that one not before September 2022 expects the first Turkish temporary workers to be deployed, quite realistically. At the beginning of November 2022 it should be over again - that's what the German Federal Employment Agency wants.

There is still opposition from a completely different source: the Turkish government is not really enthusiastic about the German project. There are fears that aviation specialists could be permanently lost. Among other things, pilots are already being made particularly difficult to switch to airlines abroad. This is done through bureaucracy, because you take a lot of time exchanging data in connection with the licenses.

The Turkish Civil Aviation Authority expressed its unequivocal rejection of Germany's plans to use temporary agency workers. It is believed that "some countries" would work to "stop our country's rise in the aviation industry". This allows at least the not entirely unfounded assumption that bureaucratic obstacles could be placed in the way of the posting of temporary workers.

Seckin Kocak, chairman of the aviation union Hava Sen, classified the civil aviation authority's statement as "embarrassing". The workers' representative pointed out that the Office had not presented any evidence that Turkey would be harmed by sending temporary workers to Germany. The trade unionist also said that there are currently too few aircraft technicians and pilots, but in the area of ​​simple ground workers there are currently far too many. It would be a good chance for both Turkey and the workers to work temporarily in Germany.