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Frankfurt: Condor announces Edmonton
The German holiday airline Condor has announced the launch of a non-stop connection between Frankfurt am Main and Edmonton in Canada for May 2023. The route is scheduled to operate on Tuesday and Friday traffic days
Lufthansa: Verdi is calling on ground staff for a warning strike on Wednesday
Chaotic conditions are threatening at Lufthansa on Wednesday, because the Verdi union is calling on around 20.000 ground workers to go on a one-day warning strike. The background is that collective bargaining is considered deadlocked. the
Condor orders 13 Airbus A320neo and 28 A321neo
The holiday airline Condor has ordered a total of 13 Airbus A320neo and 28 A321neo, which will succeed the aging A320ceo and Boeing 757. The Supervisory Board has for
Eurowings Discover has been in the air for a year
Exactly one year ago, what is currently the youngest Lufthansa airline, Eurowings Discover, officially began flight operations. This was carried out on July 24, 2022 from Frankfurt to Mombasa and Zanzibar. First led
Frankfurt: Mileage collection before departure starts
Around 60 shops, restaurants and service facilities at Frankfurt Airport allow you to earn miles as part of the Lufthansa Miles & More program. This means that award miles can already be earned before departure
Condor boss Teckentrup re-elected to the top of the BDF
The General Assembly of the Federal Association of German Airlines unanimously re-elected Condor CEO Ralf Teckentrup as President. The manager has been at the head of the interest organization since 2007. After the Corona crisis
Major Lufthansa shareholder Thiele has passed away
Heinz Hermann Thiele, major shareholder of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, died unexpectedly on Tuesday at the age of 79. This was shared by Knorr-Bremse AG, where he was most recently deputy chairman of the supervisory board
Lufthansa starts digital document check
Lufthansa starts the digital submission of documents on flights from Frankfurt to Istanbul and from New York-Newark to Frankfurt and Munich. From 72 hours before departure, passengers can give their negative
Munich Airport: Letter bomb found in the DHL distribution center
After the letter bomb attack at the headquarters of the food discounter Lidl in Neckarsulm, Germany, the German authorities scrutinized mail and parcel traffic - with success: at the DHL airport distribution center
Munich: Air Baltic and Lufthansa start codeshare
The Latvian Air Baltic and Lufthansa will work together from March 28, 2021 as part of a code share agreement on the routes from Munich to Riga and Vilnius. For passengers of the Baltic carrier
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
Mutation areas: Lufthansa is severely reducing the offer
Initially, Lufthansa announced that it would continue to operate the flight schedule regardless of the tightening and entry bans. But now the crane is using the red pencil and shortening the connections in this way
Airports: Germany before wearing a mask
Masks have to be worn at one German airport, but not at the other. That should change now. In Germany, a general mask requirement could soon be introduced at airports. So far
Tuifly is cutting 700 employees
Actually, Tuifly wanted to get back into the long-haul business in autumn 2020 and serve some routes from Düsseldorf. But now nothing will come of it. Also the reduction of jobs, especially when flying
Germany: Ryanair takes over Lauda wages
A collective agreement is now also to be concluded in Germany. There could be up to 20 percent less wages for the higher earners. The reduction of jobs is from the point of view of the management
Cologne / Bonn does not expect growth until 2026
Cologne airport boss Johann Vanneste expects that the passenger volume of the previous year can be reached again in 2026 at the earliest. He also believes that the quarantine regulations respond to demand
WDL fleets the last BAe 146
The Zeitfracht subsidiary WDL Aviation floated the last remaining BAe 146 regional jet on Monday. In the future, you will be traveling with a pure Embraer 190 fleet. You don't operate your own scheduled flights. The
Eurowings announces additional routes
Eurowings will operate a total of 26 routes from Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Cologne / Bonn and Berlin. These are mostly holiday destinations, but also some city destinations, as the carrier announced. "Also
Tegel: Lufthansa is bid farewell with a water fountain
The last Lufthansa scheduled flight from Berlin-Tegel will take off on November 7, 2020 at 21:20 p.m. The carrier will serve the connection LH1955 with an Airbus A350-900, since the demand owns it
Germany: Scheuer announces “airport billion”
The corona pandemic brought some German airports into financial difficulties. This not only affects “castles in the air”, which were downright billion-dollar graves for subsidies before the crisis, but also locations that are still in the
Special: Berlin-Tempelhof in the shadow of the BER opening
On October 31, 2020, a new era began in Berlin with the opening of BER. But the history of German aviation, as well as that of Lufthansa, can do without the former
First flight to Vienna from BER
The first Vienna flight to take off from the new Berlin-Brandenburg Airport landed on Sunday evening under flight number EJU 5849. This was carried out by the Austrian Easyjet Europe with an Airbus A320neo. The
Sundair applies for protective shield proceedings - Flöther is the trustee
The German holiday and charter airline Sundair filed a so-called protective shield proceedings with the Stralsund district court. This is a special form of insolvency proceedings in self-administration, the last for example with
Photo report: BER is open!
All eyes on Berlin: The new Terminal 1 at Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt (BER) opened today. Planning and BER, that's one of those things. Because during the capital's airport
