Hundreds of flights have been cancelled across Germany as airport workers stage a nationwide strike over pay, posing a major disruption for air travellers. The industrial action, led by the trade union Verdi, began unexpectedly on Sunday at Hamburg Airport, before expanding to a nationwide strike.

Over half a million passengers are expected to be affected by a major 24-hour strike across most of Germany's airports.

Workers at Germany's largest airports, including international hubs Frankfurt and Munich, are set to go on strike on Monday. Travel disruptions are expected.

More than half a million people are facing travel disruption at German airports on March 10 where a 24-hour strike has led to thousands of flight cancelations in a dispute about workers’ pay.

Berlin’s airport has canceled all of its flights for Monday ahead of a labor union strike that's expected to impact thousands of flights at 11 airports across Germany.

At Frankfurt, the country's busiest airport, operator Fraport said no passengers would be able to board and that disruptions would "almost certainly" affect transit travel, according to German daily Bild. Airports in Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund, Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart were also affected.

More than half a million people are facing travel disruption at German airports on Monday where a 24-hour strike has led to thousands of flight cancellations in a dispute about workers' pay. The operator of Frankfurt airport,

Strike action grounded thousands of flights in Germany on Monday, including all connections to and from Berlin, as the service sector union called on workers to walk out for better pay.The Verdi union said Friday it was calling on public sector workers and some 23,