Climate activists block runways at Germany’s Frankfurt airport
Al Jazeera
The climate action group, The Last Generation, is calling on the government to divest from oil, gas and coal by 2030.
Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt was forced to suspend arrivals and departures after a protest by climate activists who blocked runways by glueing themselves to the tarmac.
Frankfurt airport, one of the country’s busiest airports and a major international hub, on Thursday advised passengers to check the status of their flights due to the “ongoing demonstration”.
While operations resumed and all four runways were operational a few hours later, an airport spokesperson said that about 140 flights had been cancelled of 1,400 planned.
The climate activist group Letzte Generation (The Last Generation), which orchestrated the action, said in a statement that six of its members used pincers to cut openings in the airport wire fence before making their way “by foot, with bicycles and skateboards to different points around the runways”.
Protesters also held banners on the tarmac that read, “Oil kills”.
