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Lufthansa to introduce the Boeing 747-800 on the Newark route tomorrow
Lufthansa (Frankfurt) is planning to introduce the larger Boeing 747-800 on the daily Frankfurt – Newark route tomorrow (February 23) instead of March 29 per Airline Route. The newer Boeing 747-800...
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Lufthansa starts operations with its pilot-controlled LEOS “TaxiBot”
Lufthansa (Frankfurt) has started using this hybrid-electric aircraft tractor to tug aircraft with turned-off engines to the runway. The airline issued this statement: Following approval by the...
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Lufthansa announces its new First Class experience is available on all...
Lufthansa (Frankfurt) has announced its new first class experience is available on all long-haul routes from its Munich hub. The airline issued this statement: Lufthansa passengers can now experience...
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Video: Flying on Lufthansa First Class flight LH 470 Frankfurt-Toronto
Boeing 747-400 upper deck Lufthansa flight LH470 First Class Frankfurt to Toronto LH470 filmed with GoPro HERO 4 and Iphone 6.Filed under: Lufthansa Tagged: Frankfurt, Lufthansa, Toronto
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Lufthansa Group’s 2014 net profit declines over 84% to only $58.1 million
Lufthansa Group (Frankfurt) reported a much lower 2014 net profit of €55 million ($58.1 million), down significantly from €313 million ($330.8 million) for 2013. The group blamed the decline “to a...
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Lufthansa is hit again by another round of strikes by its pilots
Lufthansa (Frankfurt) is being impacted today (March 18) by another round of strikes by its pilots, represented by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC). Today’s strike is affecting short and medium-haul...
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Lufthansa Group announces its new summer holiday destinations
Lufthansa Group (Frankfurt) has announced new holiday destinations with this statement: The airlines in the Lufthansa Group Airlines – Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Germanwings, Lufthansa and...
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Germanwings Airbus A320 crashes in the French Alps, 150 on board
Germanwings (2nd) (Cologne/Bonn) flight 4U 9525 with 144 passengers (including two infants) and six crew members on board (numbers updated) has crashed in the rugged French Alps (near Digne-les-Bains...
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French investigators reach the Germanwings crash site, all 150 dead, weather...
French investigators reached the rugged mountain crash site of Germanwings flight 4U 9525 late yesterday afternoon (March 24). All 150 people on board are dead including 67 Germans and 45 Spaniards....
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New York Times: One Germanwings pilot was locked out of the cockpit before...
French investigators struggled according to the New York Times to explain why one Germanwings pilot was locked out of the cockpit before the tragic crash. French investigators announced this dramatic...
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Breaking News: Brice Robin: The Germanwings First Officer “accelerated the...
Brice Robin, Marseille Public Prosecutor, has just held a live press conference in Marseille (Marselles in English), France. According to the prosecutor, First Officer Andreas Lubitz, 28, a German...
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Lufthansa CEO and Germanwings CEO: We are “speechless and shocked”
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr and Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann just held a press conference in Cologne, Germany. Both CEOs (translated from German) said they were “speechless” and “shocked” at the...
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Norwegian and easyJet adopt a “two-person” cockpit rule
Norwegian Air Shuttle (Norwegian.com) (Oslo) and easyJet (UK) (London-Luton) have become early adopters of a new “two persons” cockpit rule in the wake of the devastating news of what caused...
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Lufthansa reverses course, will now adopt a “two person” cockpit rule
Lufthansa (Frankfurt) has shifted its previous position and will now adopt a “two person” cockpit policy according to CNN for the entire Lufthansa Group. Yesterday in a press conference, Lufthansa CEO...
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Germanwings’ Lubitz informed the Pilot School that he had a “previous episode...
Germanwings’ (2nd) (Cologne/Bonn) First Officer Andreas Lubitz “informed the Flight Training Pilot School in 2009, in the medical documents he submitted in connection with resuming his flight...
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Lufthansa to end PrivatAir service in October
Lufthansa (Frankfurt) will reportedly end its cooperative agreement with PrivatAir (Geneva) at the end of the summer season in late October per Airline Route. PrivatAir currently operates Boeing...
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Lufthansa Group reports a first quarter profit of €425 million ($474 million)
The Lufthansa Group (Frankfurt) reported a net profit of €425 million ($474 million) for the first quarter. Here is the full report: The Lufthansa Group has reported a positive course of business for...
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Lufthansa to take delivery of its first Airbus A350-900 at the end of 2016,...
Lufthansa (Frankfurt) has announced its first new Airbus A350-900 will be coming to Munich at the end of 2016. Lufthansa has ordered a total of 25 aircraft of this type, which in future will be used...
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Lufthansa to fly Finland’s ski center in the Kittilä, Lapland region
Lufthansa (Frankfurt) has announced it will fly from Munich nonstop to the largest and best-known winter sports center in Finland for the first time. From December 19. 2015, Lufthansa will be taking...
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Lufthansa to drop three Russian destinations
Lufthansa (Frankfurt) according to TASS, will drop three Russian destinations from Frankfurt as the Russian routes have become unprofitable. Moscow (Vnukovo) will be dropped on August 31, Nizhny...
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