Maximum seating, a simple concept and a premiere. Train travel is (back) in fashion. What could be more fitting than the striking green design of the only rail competitor in long-distance travel? FlixTrain advertises itself as "groundbreakingly cheap" on its own website. Time to take a closer look at the green carriages. The route network There is still hardly any movement in the all-powerful system of the rail company, which has had the German rail network completely under its control for decades. While there are now a large number of small and medium-sized railway companies across Germany thanks to regional tenders for local transport, the situation is completely different in long-distance transport. FlixTrain currently only offers a good handful of routes within Germany, for example the connections from Leipzig to Hamburg, Cologne to Berlin or Stuttgart - Berlin. Another route, Munich-Cologne, will soon be available again, after FlixTrain announced just a few days ago that it would be significantly expanding its offering again. The concept is, similar to the FlixBus, plain and simple - striking (due to the light green color scheme) and, despite the "mass transport", still somehow likeable. The audience on the test drive was a colorful mix, young and old meet in the FlixTrain. The (renovated) carriages Visually, the gray carriages with the green headrests look chic. What immediately catches the eye is the number of rows of seats, which reminds me of the maximum seating of the LCC in air transport. FlixTrain says it guarantees a seat and therefore (proactively) does not sell standing places. The seat spacing is relatively small due to the high seating, similar to low-cost seating on an airplane.

A fantastic view, an interesting selection of drinks and a separate passport control. It is already a beautiful morning in the German capital, not a single cloud in the bright blue sky when my cell phone alarm goes off. After the obligatory look at the morning headlines, I decided to leave my room early and make my way towards the "capital airport", which is actually in Brandenburg. As part of a long-planned flight with Aer Lingus to Dublin, I had decided the evening before to have breakfast in the second lounge of the BER. The location The main building of Terminal 1 at the BER (without the adjoining piers - North & South) is in the shape of an elongated "i". At each end of this "i" are the (currently) only two lounges at the BER, both of which are "airside" and thus behind the security check. At the northern end, the transition to the “Pier North”, into which “Terminal 2” will also flow from the end of this month (insert article), is the Lufthansa Business Lounge. Mirrored on the southern side and the transition to the “Pier South” with Gates A30-A38, which are used primarily by “easyJet”, is the lounge operated by the FBB called “Tempelhof”, which was originally supposed to be the “Air Berlin Lounge”. As everyone knows, nothing came of it, although during my stay the last plane in Air Berlin colours under the flight number of the new operator “Sundair” took off into the morning sky over Brandenburg and into the notorious

A surprisingly good flight, free entertainment and an expensive aircraft model - in the Eurowings Discover A320 from Frankfurt to the Canary Islands. It was a cold, dark January morning in Frankfurt, there had been night frost and the day had started with scraping my windshield. This trip report had already aroused my anticipation and curiosity when I booked a few weeks ago. What hadn't I read and heard about Eurowings Discover in the weeks before. The latest "favorite tool" of the Kranich Group Board of Management, which was founded under the project name "Ocean", initially started flight operations on July 24, 2021 under flight number 4Y/OCN134 with an A330 previously operated by Sun Express Germany. Just in time for the changeover to the current winter flight schedule, Discover then started operations on short and medium-haul routes. In recent years there have been a number of at least questionable decisions surrounding the proclaimed "Wings concept". The Eurowings brand, which will be celebrating its 30th birthday next year, mutated into a kind of guinea pig, accompanied by the negative press that came with it, which had to be dealt with. There was the first attempt at the "own" Eurowings long-haul service from Cologne/Bonn, operated by Sun Express Germany, which got off to a more than bumpy start with record delays. Then there was, for example, the seemingly haphazard and in the meantime cancelled integration of Brussels Airlines into Eurowings, while the A320 OO-SNN is still a single aircraft flying around as a kind of "contemporary witness" (to this day) in Eurowings livery under Brussels Airlines flight numbers, without ever having flown for Eurowings. The A330s, which also fly in Eurowings livery,

What do the German airports in Nuremberg, Münster-Osnabrück, Erfurt and Rostock-Laage have in common? In the last decade, the extremely painful loss of Air Berlin and less than 1,5 years later of Germania, both of which were the local "big players" at the time, had to be dealt with. After the bankruptcies, the best parts were quickly distributed, while the second-tier airports in particular had to urgently look for replacements. In the current winter flight schedule, the airports mentioned above now have one thing in common again: a Maltese charter airline - "Corendon Airlines Europe". This is an offshoot of the Turkish Corendon Airlines and is either heavily represented or even a monopoly at all four airports. But who is this (currently) pure Boeing 737 operator, which advertises with the slogan "Your Holiday Airline" in the striking colors blue, white and yellow? In 2017, the second subsidiary of Corendon Airlines at the time, after the founding of the Dutch charter subsidiary, was launched with its official headquarters on the enchanting Mediterranean island of Malta. According to its own statement, Corendon Airlines currently operates 27 737 aircraft at three AOCs, including 26 737-800s and one 737-Max8. Four more 737-Max are waiting to be delivered in the USA, one of which is to be added to the Maltese Corendon as the "9H-MAX". Time to take a closer look at the airline, which plans to fly south from 2022 airports in Germany, Austria and Switzerland next summer 26. Arrival Hannover Airport is one of the few German airports that operates an approved 24-hour flight operation. In the DACH region, it is directly connected to

Thick clouds hang over the Rhein-Main Airport in Frankfurt on this Sunday morning when, as if from nowhere, the four majestic Rolls Royce Trent 900 engines of the Airbus A380-800 appear on the horizon. British Airways Flight 902 took off from its home airport, London Heathrow, with a delay of 47 minutes. "Heathrow is slowly filling up again," Captain White announced over the loudspeaker. "As was the case in London, there was simply no pushback truck that could push this large aircraft out of its parking position on time, so we are a little behind schedule." The "Super Airbus" finally reached parking position E10 at Terminal 15 at 20:2 a.m., around 2 minutes late. "We are happy and are delighted to be flying the exceptionally short distance from Frankfurt to London with you today in this A18 after a break of almost 380 months on the ground." At this point, even the last passenger will realize that today's flight is a little special. I can hardly hide a small smile when the captain mentions during his almost 5-minute speech that he can hardly move in the cockpit today, as a total of 5 pilots are scheduled for this flight and are spread around him. There were also 18 flight attendants and 2 technicians on board to ensure that everything runs smoothly. The journey British Airways has decided to carry out A380 line training on the routes London(LHR)-Madrid-London(LHR) – course: BA462&BA463 and London(LHR)-Frankfurt-London(LHR) – course BA902&BA903. The journey to Frankfurt can be represented in various ways. The airport