Reading Time: < 1 minute The last of Lufthansa’s Boeing 737s are leaving the fleet on 29 October, when they will be scheduled in for service for the last time. If you are lucky, you can watch the last three flights land in Frankfurt, live. Planned departures and arrivals on Saturday, 29 October, local time: LH1223 Geneva-Frankfurt Departure GVA 17:55 […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Lufthansa Airbus was in the so-called “paint shop” in the Airbus plant in Toulouse for eleven days, and then the moment arrived – the first A350-900 with white Lufthansa paint and blue lettering was ready to go. 30 people worked on the task, painting a total surface area of around 2,100 square meters. This […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Struggling Air Berlin, Germany’s second-largest airline, announced on Wednesday a major restructuring plan that shrinks its fleet and cuts 1,200 jobs. In a statement, the loss-making company said it planned to “concentrate its core operations as a dedicated, focused network carrier serving higher-yielding markets, from its two key hubs in Berlin and Düsseldorf”. Air Berlin […]
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 […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a wide-reaching agreement signed in Beijing today, Lufthansa and Air China have agreed to conclude a deal two years in the making. Both airlines have agreed to form a joint venture (JV) which will operate all connections between Europe and China, significantly expanding their code-sharing connections and commercial partnerships. It will commence operations in […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lufthansa is planning the very first visit of an Airbus A380 to Sofia for Sunday, on 16 October 2016. The largest passenger aircraft of the world will depart in Frankfurt as a special flight and is scheduled to touch down in Sofia around noon time. For this premiere a delegation of politicians, customers and media […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute In the presence of his Excellency the Maltese Prime Minister Dr. Joseph Muscat low-cost carrier easyJet and Lufthansa Technik AG signed a substantial base maintenance contract in the Maltese capital Valletta. More than 100 of the airline’s A320 family will be serviced by Lufthansa Technik Malta during the next five years. Ian Davies, easyJet Director […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute On 15 August, at the start of the second week of the Olympic Games, Lufthansa celebrates its 60th anniversary of scheduled service to Brazil. In 1956, a Lockheed Super Star with 48 first-class seats flew from Hamburg to Rio de Janeiro in a total 26 hours with three stopovers. In the meantime, the flight time […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute As regulators worldwide search for a solution to the ever-increasing problem of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones as they are also called, a further incident has occurred at Germany’s Munich Airport between a UAV and a Lufthansa A321 on its approach to the airport on August 4. The plane in question was on a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s plane-servicing business is cutting 700 engine-maintenance jobs as new, low-maintenance engines and fresh competitors put a dent in earnings at its most profitable unit. Most of the cuts will come at Lufthansa Technik’s Hamburg site, which employs 1,800 people, spokesman Jens Krueger said by phone. The unit has 2,000 workers throughout Germany. […]