Frankfurt Airport disrupted by climate activists

BERLIN: Frankfurt airport, Germany’s busiest, was forced Thursday to temporarily suspend arrivals and departures after environmental activists forced their way into the apron.

Traffic was halted during the busy summer holiday season for two hours before the first of the airport’s landing runways was able to operate again at 0502 GMT, said a spokesman at the airport.

A departures runway reopened shortly afterwards, said the spokesman, with a second to follow imminently.

Passengers were advised to check the status of their flights while the airport ramps up its operations again.

Police had said earlier that they “doing everything” to get the protesters off the tarmac.

According to climate activist group Letzte Generation (Last Generation), six of its members had used pincers to cut openings in the wire fence before making their way “by foot, with bicycles and skateboards to different points around the runways”.