Lufthansa, Germany’s largest airline, is experimenting with using a synthetic material that mimics shark skin to make its planes more aerodynamic as part of its ongoing efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The synthetic shark skin, called AeroSHARK, is already used on more than a dozen aircraft owned by Lufthansa and its subsidiaries, which in total […]
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Exactly 25 years ago, Lufthansa Group employees in Frankfurt am Main founded the help alliance, Lufthansa Group’s aid organization. To mark this anniversary, Europe’s largest aviation company is sending a clear sign of support across the continent: an Airbus A321neo with the lettering ‘help alliance’ and many colorful “helping hands” will be flying in Lufthansa’s […]
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The European Commission has launched an investigation to determine whether state aid granted by the German government to Lufthansa during the Covid-19 pandemic breached European Union regulations. The €6 billion recapitalisation package was approved under the Covid Temporary Framework in June 2020, but was annulled by a ruling of the General Court of the EU […]
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Lufthansa Group airlines are imposing an environmental fee of up to €72 on flights from 2025. The German airline said that the surcharge is intended “to cover part of the steadily increasing additional costs due to regulatory environmental requirements”. The surcharge will vary between €1 and €72 depending on the route and fare. The surcharge […]
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The report by Tamur Goudarzi Pour, Head of the Lufthansa Group Customer Excellence Task Force, on the ambitious plans for the future of air travel, including a move away from the traditional PNR (Passenger Name Record) system. In an interview with Linda Fox, senior reporter for PhocusWire, Pour discussed his vision for a “PNR-free world” […]
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The strikes of recent months have given Lufthansa a sad first place, as the German carrier was crowned the airline with the most flight cancellations in Europe in the first quarter of 2024. According to an analysis by Flightright, the airline has the worst record in Europe, cancelling just under 6% of its flights in […]
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG has reached an agreement on wages with cabin crew, ending months of intensive negotiations that had been disrupted by crippling strikes at Europe’s largest airline group. In particular, Lufthansa and the UFO union, which represents 19,000 cabin crew members of the German airline, including flight attendants, have agreed on a wage increase, […]
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EU antitrust regulators warned that Lufthansa’s intention to buy a minority stake in ITA Airways could harm competition and raise prices, intensifying pressure on the German airline to present remedies in the coming weeks. The Commission announced in January that it would fully investigate Lufthansa’s plan to buy a 41% stake in state-owned ITA from […]
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A new round of strike action at Lufthansa is expected to lead to the cancellation of a total of 1,000 flights today (Tuesday, 12 March) and tomorrow (Wednesday, 13 March) at Frankfurt and Munich airports, the German carrier has announced. Amid strike action over airline cabin crew wage negotiations, starting this morning, 600 flights are […]
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–Strike actions at Lufthansa is escalating, with ground staff going on strike from 4am today, Tuesday 20 February, until 7:10am on Wednesday 21 February, resulting in 80-90% of the German airline’s flights being cancelled. The powerful trade union Verdi, which represents around 25,000 ground workers at Lufthansa companies and is currently negotiating a new collective […]
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