We are flying from Washington Dulles to Frankfurt tomorrow (9 April 2026) on United, arriving Friday 10 April, then taking a DeutschBahn ICE from Frankfurt to Munich via the "fly and rail" option between United and Lufthansa. I've just received a notice from Lufthansa that UfO flight attendants on both Lufthansa and Lufthansa Cityline are calling a one-day strike for Friday 10 April in both Frankfurt and Munich. From what I can gather from various websites (https://p.dw.com/p/5BpgL) this should not affect rail travel. Does anyone on the forum have any better information? Many thanks.
Posted by
Salem, Oregon, USA
4197 posts
I don't know about the strike, but I had to use Google to find out that "UFO" is the initials for the union of flight attendants and NOT an unidentified flying object.
Hopefully one of our resident German experts will weigh in to help you, but the news source you linked says it impacts departures, not arrivals, and as far as I know Lufthansa doesn't operate trains.
Posted by
OP
Bethesda, MD, USA
21 posts
I have done some more research and it appears that the biggest impact on rail travel will be an increase of airline passengers who will try to travel by train. We have reserved seats so we should be ok.