The main German airline presented a bill to environmental activists (4 photos)
The environmentalists who glued themselves to the runway caused damage to the company in the amount of 740 thousand euros.
The German airline Lufthansa and its subsidiaries have presented a large bill to environmental activists from the Letzte Generation ("Last Generation") movement, who glued themselves to the runways at German airports.
“Lufthansa is presenting the ‘final bill’ to environmental hooligans for canceling, delaying and rerouting flights due to their actions and takeovers of the runway at three German airports,” writes the German publication Bild am Sonntag.
Eurowings (a subsidiary of Lufthansa) has calculated that losses from numerous actions that led to delays and changes in flight routes at three German airports amount to 740 thousand euros.
The damage from the actions of environmental activists on July 13 at the airports of Hamburg and Dusseldorf amounted to 400 thousand and 220 thousand euros, the November action at the Berlin airport cost the company 120 thousand euros.
It is reported that six members of the Letzte Generation movement have already been notified of the need to pay damages. Five of them hired lawyers, and one of them filed a counterclaim in court.
Bild am Sonntag writes that the airline treated the violators delicately; they did not disclose the names of the environmental activists and asked to pay the amount out of court.
Meanwhile, the German government is already discussing the issue of toughening punishment for such antics at airports. Transport Minister Volker Wissang said such actions "go far beyond the scope of legitimate protest."