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Frankfurt Airport has been forced to curtail some freighter flights as the labour shortage bites.

Airlines were told on Friday that Fraport’s ground handling arm, BVD, was “severely limited”, owing to traffic peaks, schedule changes and limited staff.

“As a further measure to relieve the ground handling services during these traffic peaks and to stabilise handling at FRA, [handler] BVD is asking certain cargo airlines not to route flights through Frankfurt until the end of August.”

BVD said the capacity restrictions would affect ...