FRANKFURT — After the end of the longest strike in the company’s history, Lufthansa will return to almost normal operations on Saturday and will offer its customers the usual service as soon as possible.

All scheduled long-haul connections will be able to operate on Saturday. Furthermore the long-haul connections from Frankfurt to Hong Kong, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, which were scheduled to take off on late Friday evening, will be delayed to Saturday morning.

Thus, a cancellation of these connections can be avoided. Lufthansa will also return to almost normal operations on short- and medium-haul flights on Saturday. Due to operational reasons, there can be occasional flight cancellations, if the aircraft or crews are not yet at the site of operation.

“Lufthansa would like to sincerely apologize again to all customers who have been affected by the strike of the Independent Flight Attendant’s Union (UFO) during the past days. The company has done its utmost to keep the effects on their customers as low as possible,” said the carrier.

Altogether the company was forced to cancel approximately 4,700 flights during seven strike days. Affected by these cancellations were approximately 550,000 passengers.