Chaos and cancelled flights reign supreme at strike-hit Frankfurt as airport ground crew and aviation security staff form a picket to demand better pay at a time when workers are seeing their incomes eroded by high inflation. The full-day walkout, called by the Verdi trade union, prompted Germany's biggest carrier Lufthansa to cancel more than 1,300 flights alone at its busiest hubs, Frankfurt and Munich. "This is not only about the 10.5% inflation compensation, which we absolutely need, but our working conditions must improve too," union member Ali Balshee says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES