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The Lufthansa Group’s leisure travel program is stronger than ever

This summer, the airlines of the Lufthansa Group are offering the most extensive range of vacation destinations in years, thus further demonstrating the company’s knowledge of the leisure travel market.  Over the course of the summer Lufthansa plans to add around 20 new vacation destinations to its flight program from Frankfurt and 13 new holiday […]

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Strong start for Lufthansa Group at the new Berlin Capital Airport

Just over a month after moving from Tegel to the new Berlin-Brandenburg airport, the Lufthansa Group is showing positive results. The airlines’ relocation went according to plan and operating procedures at BER are working very well with the current low traffic volume. Lufthansa Group airlines are operating from Pier North in Terminal 1, which is […]

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Pilot project launched: First Lufthansa flight in which all passengers previously tested negative takes off

This morning, the first Lufthansa flight, on which all passengers previously tested negative for Covid-19, took off for Hamburg from Munich: LH2058, which left Munich at 9:10 a.m., marked the start of Covid-19 antigen rapid testing on two daily flights between the two metropolises. Once the test was completed, customers received their test results within […]

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Lufthansa Group: Operating loss -4,161 million € after nine months of 2020

The corona crisis continued to have a considerable impact on Lufthansa Group’s earnings development in the third quarter of 2020. However, due to an expansion of the flight schedule in the summer months of July and August and considerable cost reductions, losses were reduced compared to the second quarter. On a preliminary basis, Adjusted EBIT […]

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Lufthansa: Ticket refunds over three billion euros paid

In the current year, the airlines of the Lufthansa Group have so far reimbursed over three billion euros to a total of over seven million customers (as of 30 September 2020). The number of ticket refunds still open fell to around 700,000 transactions worth around 350 million euros. Constantly changing travel restrictions and current political […]

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Consequences of Corona pandemic have a considerable impact on Lufthansa result

Adjusted EBIT declines to minus 1.7 billion euros in the second quarter despite significant cost reductions. Number of employees already reduced by 8,300 – redundancies no longer ruled out in Germany as well. Normalization of demand to pre-crisis level expected for 2024 at the earliest The collapse in demand for air travel due to the […]

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Lufthansa: More destinations available from Munich throughout all of Europe

In the late summer season, Lufthansa will take off from Munich to 5 further European destinations. Beginning 7 September, the airline will be returning to Marseille, Gothenburg, Kiev and Sibiu/Romania, and from 5 October to Graz.  Already, Lufthansa has significantly expanded its European services during the Bavarian summer holidays and added the Greek island of […]

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Lufthansa launches second set of measures of its restructuring program

The Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG has approved a second set of measures as part of its overall restructuring program in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. With the first set of measures launched in early April it had been decided, among other things, to reduce the fleet by 100 aircraft and not to […]

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Lufthansa reorganizes responsibilities on the Executive Board

The Executive Committee of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG today approved a new allocation of responsibilities for the Executive Board. The former “Finance & IT” department will not be replaced following Thorsten Dirks’ departure. The responsibilities will be assigned to the other management departments of the Executive Board. Carsten Spohr will assume additional […]

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