Recent News Headlines : Lufthansa

LUFTHANSA TO GAIN MORE SLOTS DESPITE OFFER TO GIVE UP MOST NIKI SLOTS


Lufthansa would also gain Air Berlin's numerous popular holiday destinations if the deal was approved, the person said... READ MORE

7th December, 2017 1

LUFTHANSA OFFERS EU CONCESSIONS OVER AIR BERLIN ASSET BUY


But the deal has come under fire from airlines and consumer groups who fear it will give Lufthansa dominance of German domestic routes and in Austria... READ MORE

1st December, 2017 7

AMERICAN AIRLINES SAYS IT HAS FOUND PILOTS FOR MOST CHRISTMAS FLIGHTS


American Airlines says only a few hundred of its late December flights remain without pilots scheduled to fly the plane... READ MORE

30th November, 2017 79

LUFTHANSA SAYS HAS RESOURCES FOR MORE EUROPEAN DEALS


FRANKFURT Reuters - Germany's Lufthansa LHAG.DE has financial firepower to take part in future consolidation of Europe's airlines, its chief executive told Boersen-Zeitung in an... READ MORE

12th November, 2017 0

AIR BERLIN SET FOR FINAL FAREWELL AS CARVE-UP TALKS CONTINUE


Air Berlin's last flight is AB6210, departing Munich at 19.35 GMT and due to land in Berlin Tegel at 20.45... READ MORE

27th October, 2017 57

CERBERUS SHOWS INTEREST IN TROUBLED ALITALIA


REUTERS Max Rossi Cerberus told Alitalia that it was still interested in buying the airline if it could be comprehensively restructured, the FT said, citing sources... READ MORE

25th October, 2017 175

LUFTHANSA SPREADS WINGS BY SNAPPING UP PARTS OF FAILED AIR BERLIN


Lufthansa has agreed to acquire Air Berlin's Austrian leisure travel airline Niki, its LG Walter regional airline and 20 additional aircraft, Air Berlin said in a statement... READ MORE

13th October, 2017 218

LUFTHANSA SET TO BUY PARTS OF AIR BERLIN


Lufthansa set to buy parts of Air Berlin - source... READ MORE

11th October, 2017 21

AUF WIEDERSEHEN AIR BERLIN: FLIGHTS TO CEASE THIS MONTH


Those operations also include access to take-off and landing slots at Air Berlin's hubs in Tegel and Duesseldorf... READ MORE

9th October, 2017 846

EUROPEAN AIRLINE FAILURES PLAY INTO HANDS OF RICHER RIVALS


In the short term, Monarch's collapse benefits airlines flying from the United Kingdom to tourist destinations... READ MORE

4th October, 2017 285

FLIGHTS WORLDWIDE DELAYED AS AMADEUS BOOKING SYSTEM SUFFERS 'NETWORK ISSUE'


Airlines worldwide were forced to delay flights Thursday as a global flight-bookings system operated by Amadeus IT Group SA suffered what the company calle... READ MORE

29th September, 2017 0

EYEING AIR BERLIN, LUFTHANSA BOARD BACKS EXTRA INVESTMENT FOR EUROWINGS


Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr said last week that even if Lufthansa were unsuccessful with the Air Berlin bid, it would still expand Eurowings on its own... READ MORE

26th September, 2017 346

BERLIN VOTES TO KEEP COLD WAR AIRPORT IN FALLOUT OVER DELAYS


Tegel was originally built to handle 2.7 million passengers a year when Berlin was an island in a sea of communism... READ MORE

25th September, 2017 92

LUFTHANSA SEEN OFFERING TO PAY 200 MILLION EUROS FOR AIR BERLIN ASSETS


Lufthansa seen offering to pay 200 million euros for Air Berlin assets source... READ MORE

24th September, 2017 114

GERMANY'S OTHER VOTE: AIRPORT ROW DIVIDES BERLINERS


If you want to get a row going at a Berlin dinner party, just mention Tegel airport... READ MORE

24th September, 2017 187

GERMAN PLANE HIJACKED TO SOMALIA IN 1977 BROUGHT BACK HOME


A Lufthansa passenger jet hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group's campaign against West German authorities has returned home... READ MORE

23rd September, 2017 0

GERMAN PLANE HIJACKED TO SOMALIA IN 1977 BROUGHT BACK HOME


A Lufthansa passenger jet hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group's campaign against West German authorities has returned home... READ MORE

23rd September, 2017 0

LUFTHANSA, EASYJET GET INSIDE TRACK ON BUYING AIR BERLIN ASSETS


Lufthansa plans to give about 3,000 of Air Berlin's more than 8,000 employees a job, Spohr said Wednesday... READ MORE

22nd September, 2017 27

LUFTHANSA CEO PUTS FOCUS ON 38 WET LEASE PLANES IN AIR BERLIN BATTLE


Lufthansa is however not interested in Air Berlin's long-haul routes however, with Spohr saying the flagship carrier could grow in that area on its own... READ MORE

21st September, 2017 86

LAUDA TO BID FOR PART OF AIR BERLIN WITH THOMAS COOK'S CONDOR


Air Berlin, Germany's second-biggest airline, is set to be carved up, most likely among several buyers, with binding offers due on Friday... READ MORE

13th September, 2017 0

INSOLVENT AIR BERLIN SCRAPS FLIGHTS OVER 'ILL' PILOTS


Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary Eurowings, which is renting aircraft as well as pilot and crew from Air Berlin, has also been forced to cancel some flights... READ MORE

12th September, 2017 0

Trending News Headlines : Lufthansa

GERMANS LOSING INTEREST IN U.S. VACATIONS BECAUSE OF TRUMP, POLL FINDS


Among the Germans polled by GfK, 36 percent said they'd continue to travel to the U.S., as they differentiate between politics and Americans' warm-heartedness... READ MORE

18th February, 2017 13860

GERMANWINGS PLANE 4U 9525 CRASHES IN FRENCH ALPS


A Germanwings plane carrying 150 people crashes in the French Alps on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, with no survivors... READ MORE

24th March, 2015 10000

AND THE WORLD'S NEW NO.1 AIRLINE FOR 2017 IS ...


Qatar Airways bumped Emirates out of the top spot in the annual Skytrax ratings. Again. Air Canada, Delta named best in North America... READ MORE

20th June, 2017 7143

'APPALLING' UNITED AIRLINES INCIDENT WON'T BE TOLERATED IN CANADA


'Appalling' United Airlines incident won't be tolerated in Canada Garneau... READ MORE

14th April, 2017 5712

GERMANWINGS AIRBUS A320 CRASHES IN FRENCH ALPS WITH 150 PEOPLE ON BOARD


Germanwings Airbus A320 crashes in French Alps with 150 people on board latest... READ MORE

24th March, 2015 4337

DID GERMANWINGS PILOT DELIBERATELY LOCK HIS CO-PILOT OUT OF COCKPIT?


Breaking news germanwings co-pilot andreas lubitz deliberately crashed flight 4u9525 into mountain to destroy the plane after locking his captain out of cockpit reveals french prosecutor... READ MORE

26th March, 2015 3457

AIR CANADA INVITES PASSENGERS TO MAKE CASH OFFER TO SIT IN BETTER CLASS


Ottawa-based travel blogger Anshul Singh recently bid to upgrade his Air Canada flight from Toronto to Dubai... READ MORE

12th March, 2017 3129

GERMANWINGS AIRBUS CRASHES IN FRENCH ALPS, 150 FEARED DEAD


DARK DAY Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr, who planned to go to the crash site, spoke of a dark day for the airline... READ MORE

24th March, 2015 3019

GERMAN AIRLINES DROP SAFETY RULE PROMPTED BY GERMANWINGS CRASH


German airlines are dropping safety rules brought in after the 2015 Germanwings plane crash which require two people in the cockpit at all times... READ MORE

29th April, 2017 2720

AIRLINES ACROSS THE WORLD TO CHANGE SAFETY POLICIES


Airlines across the world have begun requiring two crew members to always be present in the cockpit, in the wake of the French Alps crash... READ MORE

26th March, 2015 2642

FOREIGN SECRETARY SAYS IT'S 'LIKELY' BRITS DIED IN DISASTER


Revealed germanwings flight 4u9525 received safety warning just four months ago after sister plane went into tailspin... READ MORE

25th March, 2015 2596

GERMANWINGS PLANE CRASH: PILOT 'LOCKED OUT OF COCKPIT'


Germanwings plane crash pilot locked out of cockpit... READ MORE

26th March, 2015 2463

WHEN IS A PASSENGER REIMBURSEMENT POLICY NOT A POLICY? ASK AIR CANADA


In late 2013, he was in London, preparing to board an Air Canada flight to Ottawa, where he lives... READ MORE

11th February, 2016 2343

ALPS CRASH 'A PICTURE OF HORROR'


Safety experts from France, Germany and Spain were en route to the crash site, he added... READ MORE

24th March, 2015 1963

BERLIN'S NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS FIVE YEARS LATE AND COUNTING


The airport operator, Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH, which also runs Tegel and Schonefeld, says the terminal is 89 percent completed and some 150,000 defects have been remedied... READ MORE

31st March, 2017 1449

CO-PILOT WAS 100 PERCENT FLIGHTWORTHY AIRLINE SAYS


Lubitz was accepted into the pilot training program in 2008, and did his training in Bremen, Germany, and in Phoenix... READ MORE

26th March, 2015 1327

AIR CANADA'S PLAN OF ATTACK FLIES OVER AMERICA


Air Canada acquired its first Boeing 777--a staple of most international long-haul fleets--just a decade ago... READ MORE

15th February, 2017 1282

GERMANWINGS CRASH: 78 DNA STRANDS ISOLATED


However, they denied German media reports body parts of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had been identified... READ MORE

29th March, 2015 1249

ANDREAS LUBITZ: FRIENDS IN THE CO-PILOT'S HOMETOWN EXPRESS SHOCK AND SURPRISE


Lufthansa said both pilots were trained at the Lufthansa Flight Training School in Bremen... READ MORE

26th March, 2015 972

NIGERIA'S TANKING CURRENCY HAS LEFT ITS AIRLINE INDUSTRY ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE


Soaring jet fuel costs have also led United Airlines and Spain's national carrier, Iberia, to shutter their Nigeria routes... READ MORE

14th September, 2016 773

16 TEENAGERS TWO OPERA SINGERS TWO BABIES AND A FATHER THE VICTIMS OF THE GERMANWINGS FLIGHT


'Air crash investigators will need to examine the black boxes, the flight data recorder and the voice recorder to determine exactly what happened,' he said... READ MORE

26th March, 2015 738

RUSSIAN WARPLANES RISKING SAFETY OF EUROPEAN AIRLINERS, SAYS NATO CHIEF


But it's not in accordance with good norms to do it without communicating with civilian air traffic control... READ MORE

16th November, 2014 663

GERMANWINGS CRASH SETTLEMENTS ARE LIKELY TO VARY BY PASSENGER NATIONALITY


Lufthansa said it would honor its responsibilities to the families.How much each family gets in the end will vary... READ MORE

29th March, 2015 656

AIRLINES INTRODUCE TWO-PERSON COCKPIT RULE AFTER ALPS CRASH


Germany's aviation association BDL said all airlines in the country, including Lufthansa, had agreed to discuss such rule changes... READ MORE

27th March, 2015 521

AIRLINES FRET ABOUT LAPTOP BAN FROM EUROPE DURING PEAK SEASON


Air France-KLM Group and Deutsche Lufthansa AG say they're making preparations for the moratorium on devices on flights from Europe, including tablets and games consoles... READ MORE

12th May, 2017 490

FLIGHT GERMANIA ST6256 FROM DUSSELDORF TO TEL AVIV DECLARES EMERGENCY, LANDS IN MUNICH


A Germania airlines plane traveling from Dusseldorf to Tel Aviv landed in Munich after a medical emergency occurred on board, the airline has confirmed... READ MORE

6th October, 2016 460

LUFTHANSA, OTHERS ADOPT 'RULE OF TWO' FOR AIRLINE COCKPITS


The change will cover all the carriers in the Lufthansa Group, which includes Germanwings, Austrian Airlines and Swiss International Air Lines... READ MORE

27th March, 2015 426

SEVERAL GERMANWINGS FLIGHTS CANCELLED AFTER CREW REFUSED TO FLY


Further disruption is expected today after Germanwings flights from Dusseldorf to several destinations were cancelled... READ MORE

25th March, 2015 418

WHO'S THE WOMAN IN YELLOW? BRUSSELS SURVIVOR IDENTIFIED


The woman in yellow reeling after the Brussels airport attack is identified as Nidhi Chaphekar, 40, a flight attendant from India for Jet Airways... READ MORE

26th March, 2016 386

OFFICIALS DOUBT AIR BERLIN CAN CONTINUE IN PRESENT FORM


The model of Air Berlin as an independent airline has failed, he told German radio station rbb InfoRadio on Saturday... READ MORE

19th August, 2017 347


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