
Frankfurt: warning strike at Lufthansa Cargo subsidiary
The Frankfurt employees of the Lufthansa Cargo subsidiary Handling Counts have been called on by the Verdi union to go on a three-day warning strike since Wednesday morning. The employee representatives want to put pressure on management

Paid catering: Condor sells Starbucks products
The German holiday airline Condor and Starbucks will be working together from May 1, 2022. In future, passengers on short and medium-haul routes will be able to order coffee, tea and hot chocolate from the US brand

Shortage of staff at Swiss: Lufthansa will help out from June 2022
There is a staff shortage at Swiss. The parent company Lufthansa helps out for a few months on the routes between Zurich and Frankfurt as well as Munich. Some courses will be served temporarily by the Kranich airline from June 2022.

Instead of paid catering: Many Lufthansa flights only take off with bottled water
Things are currently going rough at Lufthansa in the paid catering area at the Frankfurt am Main location. Many flights take off with no meals or drinks at all. Only water bottles, which are distributed free of charge anyway

Eurowings Discover with up to 21 aircraft in summer 2022
The holiday airline Eurowings Discover plans to increase its fleet to 21 aircraft by the end of this year. This will involve ten Airbus A320 and eleven A330 in own operation, confirmed

FRA: Condor flies to Faro and Alicante in summer
Condor is including the destinations Faro in Portugal and Alicante in Spain in the summer timetable. From July 29th, the airline's planes will take off from Frankfurt Airport every Friday

Corpus Christi: Lufthansa increases tourist routes
After Austrian Airlines, the parent company Lufthansa announced that the flight offer will be temporarily increased over the Corpus Christi weekend. The focus is on tourist destinations in Greece, Portugal and Spain. From

Munich Airport confirms ambitious climate targets
The airports that are part of the international airport association ACI Europe have confirmed their ambitious climate goals at today's second ACI congress on sustainability in air traffic. The airports renewed their commitment, which was given by

Lufthansa announces seven Eurowings Discover routes
The Lufthansa Group will offer seven additional long-haul destinations from Munich and Frankfurt in the summer of 2022. These can be booked from May 26, 2021. These are offers from Eurowings

The prototype of the “Panther” stops at Munich Airport
It is a year older than Munich Airport and was used as a fire engine for almost three decades by the airport fire departments in Geneva and Sion: the prototype of the airport fire engine completed in 1991

United is ramping up Germany routes again
United Airlines is gradually increasing its presence in the Federal Republic of Germany. The carrier announced that the destination San Francisco will be offered again from Munich in June 2021.

MUC: Airlines are planning more flights over the Whitsun holidays
Munich Airport expects significant increases in flights, travel destinations and passengers during the Bavarian Whitsun holidays. For the period from May 21 to June 6, 2021 inclusive, according to the previous

Flight attendants warn: Corona protection is inadequate
A few weeks ago, the Spanish trade union complained about protective masks that were not made available to Lauda staff at the Palma de Mallorca base, which did not comply with local legislation. Well was

Lübeck: “Climate protectors” wanted to prevent first flight
Accompanied by protests, the first scheduled flight after a long break from Lübeck-Blankensee airport took place on Monday morning. The in-house brand Lübeck Air, operated by Air Alsie, now offers connections to

Air France-KLM opens three lounges in Germany
The French-Dutch aviation group Air France-KLM reopened the lounges in Munich, Stuttgart and Berlin-Tegel. These were temporarily closed at the beginning of the corona pandemic in Europe. The exclusive waiting areas at the

Air Malta with 22 destinations in summer
The state carrier is announcing its comeback in regular service, but only a few days ago 70 pilots who had been terminated were asked to return their uniforms. These were in garbage bags in front of the Air Malta headquarters in

Eurowings is forcing passengers to use the check-in counter
The Lufthansa subsidiary encourages “avoid unnecessary contact at the airport” by means of web check-in, but instead of a boarding pass it is requested to collect it personally at the counter. The company says that

Eurowings presents Corona travel assistant
After the umbrella association of airlines (IATA) presented the Covid-19 map, Eurowings is now also presenting an in-house travel assistant: the “Eurowings Flight Guide” is intended to help people with entry regulations, which often change at short notice

Lauda: Ryanair takes over in Düsseldorf and Stuttgart
Instead of OE flight numbers, the FR code will be used from Düsseldorf and Stuttgart in the future. The flights will, however, continue to be operated with the Lauda A320. It will be in Stuttgart and Düsseldorf

Germany: Lauda only flies wet leases
In future, Lauda will not operate any flights for its own account, but only ACMI services for Ryanair from Stuttgart and Düsseldorf. According to the management, this should not be done in Vienna and Palma de Mallorca

Eurowings reports high demand
The lifting of the international travel warning is said to have spurred the Germans' desire to travel. The Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings is increasing the flight schedule due to the “skyrocketing demand”. Around 80
In jukeboxes: Cologne customs find 3.240 cartons of cigarettes
Customs found a total of 3.240 cartons of cigarettes in eight freight shipments sent from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom at Cologne / Bonn Airport. According to the main customs office, these were hidden in music boxes that were still there

Berlin: Sylt will be the only domestic Easyjet destination
The low-cost airline Easyjet will not reactivate the domestic German routes from Berlin to Düsseldorf, Cologne / Bonn, Munich and Stuttgart for the time being. This explained Germany boss Stephan Erler to the tourist newspaper FVW. A single domestic German

String concert: Ryanair returns to eleven German airports
The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is using the red pencil at eleven German airports and in Basel-Mulhouse. Numerous routes will be discontinued or will no longer be included in the 2021 summer flight schedule. That hits the hardest

Vueling flies non-stop to Mallorca
The airline, which is part of the IAG Group, is resuming non-stop connections between Germany and Mallorca. The airline is expanding its range of flights to Palma. A total of five German routes are from the cheap flights to the

Easter: Ryanair continues to increase the offer
The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is increasing its offer around Easter. The carrier flies back to Porto from Berlin, Cologne / Bonn, Memmingen and Frankfurt am Main. From Germany's largest airport

Easter: Sundair expands its Palma program considerably
The German holiday airline Sundair is expanding its flight program to Palma de Mallorca around the Easter holidays. The demand has risen sharply in the last few days, since the Federal Republic

BER supervisory board advocates partial debt discharge
Berlin-Brandenburg Airport should get through the current crisis more easily by means of a partial debt discharge. The Supervisory Board expects around 2021 million passengers for the current year 10,7. For comparison: In 2019

BER boss says goodbye: Lütke Daldrup wants to leave in September
Engelbert Lütke Daldrup has asked the Supervisory Board to terminate his employment contract early this September. Since March 2017 he has held the post of CEO of the airport

Sundair: D-ASSB arrived in Berlin
The German airline Sundair transferred an Airbus A319 to Berlin-Brandenburg Airport with the D-ASSB. Before that, it was extensively maintained by Croatia Airlines. The holiday airline is currently exchanging leased aircraft for others