Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa Technik will extend its base maintenance capabilities by adding the Boeing 787. Lufthansa Technik Shannon has announced a multi-million-euro investment that opens the doors for the 787 later this year. The Shannon-based MRO will also be able to offer modifications, cabin and interior refurbishment, interior repair and paint, external paint repairs, specialized inspections, airworthiness […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes “We have continued on our successful track in the first quarter of this year and achieved another good result,” said Ulrik Svensson, Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, presenting the Lufthansa Group’s financial results for the first three months of 2017. “For a period that is traditionally difficult for the airline industry, we have […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lufthansa Technik and Mercedes-Benz Style are presenting the final version of their advanced VIP aircraft cabin design for the first time to a broader audience in Asia at the ABACE 2017 in Shanghai. Led by Lufthansa Technik’s VIP & Special Mission Aircraft Services engineering team, the initial design concept has been further developed to fully […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lufthansa Technik AG, headquartered in Hamburg, continued its track record for international growth in 2016 and produced a good result with significantly more investment. The increase in revenue with non-group companies overcompensated the decline in internal orders. Solid profitability Sales revenue climbed by 45 million euros from 5.099 billion euros to 5.144 billion euros. The […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Deutsche Lufthansa AG will once again hire more than 3000 new staff this year. It is mostly flight attendants who will join the various airlines of the Lufthansa Group in 2017. Lufthansa, Germany’s biggest airline, will hire 1400 flight attendants at the hubs in Frankfurt and Munich alone; overall the Lufthansa Group airlines will hire […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa Technik is to close its Hamburg overhaul operations for commercial aircraft in the course of 2017. Discussions with the wage accord partner, ver.di, ended without agreement. Despite intensive negotiations regarding the essential accord cost reductions, the negotiating partners were unable to find a solution that would make a commercially viable continuation of Aircraft Overhaul […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute On December 19, 2016, the Lufthansa Group will receive its first A350-900, which is the most modern long-haul aircraft worldwide and which will be based at Lufthansa’s Munich Hub. The first regular commercial flight will be from Munich to Delhi, starting on February 10, 2017. Tickets are available now. “We are looking forward to welcoming […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lufthansa Technik AG is equipped to perform all work required for the complete maintenance of the new Lufthansa Airbus A350-900, the team is trained and ready to go and the company is licensed by the German Federal Aviation Office (LBA). The handing over of the “Base Maintenance Approval” certificate by the LBA brings to an […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wizz Air, the largest low-cost carrier of Central and Eastern Europe, is extending its successful partnership with Lufthansa Technik and expanding it with additional services. The ultra-low-cost airline has extended two existing contracts for technical support of its Airbus A320 family and its future A321neo fleet by Lufthansa Technik. Apart from the integrated component supply as […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has started installing the latest Ka-band satellite technology as standard equipment on Lufthansa Group’s entire Airbus A320 aircraft family fleet– approximately 300 aircraft — bringing broadband communication to the airline’s short- and medium-haul flights, the company said Sept. 26. The fleet will be fitted with the necessary antennae and routers in parallel […]