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Boeing establishes a new location in Germany

The US aircraft manufacturer Boeing is building a new distribution center for chemical and specialty materials in Henstedt-Ulzburg (near Hamburg). This is to employ around 190 people in the future. In cooperation with the municipality of Henstedt-Ulzburg, Warburg-HIH Invest and the logistics real estate specialist Verdion, Boeing is further expanding its activities in Germany and is realizing a new European distribution center for

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SmartLynx starts charter flights from Germany

The Latvian charter airline SmarLynx will offer connections to the Canary Islands of Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife from Hamburg, Hanover, Düsseldorf and Munich in autumn 2021, the company confirmed. The flights will not be carried out on its own account, but on behalf of Involatus. The company specialises in chartering aircraft

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Easter: Easyjet hangs up Hamburg-Palma

The low-cost airline Easyjet Europe wants another piece of the “Mallorca cake” around Easter. The carrier will start two weekly non-stop flights from Hamburg to Palma on April 1, 2020. The route will be served with Airbus A320s stationed in Spain. The lifting of the German travel warning for the Balearic Islands led to a

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Lufthansa Technik develops onboard patient transport units

The maintenance company recently began the strategic development of its proven patient transport units for the air transport of patients in intensive care. Based on an order placed by the German Armed Forces in 2020, an initial 26 units of the new units will be produced over the next two years. They are based on the internationally deployed

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Germany: 1.000 employees have left Airbus

Around 1.000 employees are said to have voluntarily left the Airbus plants in Finkenwerder, Stade, Bremen and Buxtehude so far. This was explained by an IG Metall official to the Hamburger Abendblatt. The aircraft manufacturer is trying to avoid redundancies by encouraging voluntary resignations. Employees who decide to do so will receive severance payments. 15.000 jobs are to be cut across the group.

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Hamburg: Airbus hygiene concept leaves a lot to be desired

The cause of the corona outbreak was unclear for a long time. Now the first indications point to the aircraft manufacturer's own negligence. The judicial authority responsible for compliance with occupational health and safety in Hamburg had already expressed its concerns about compliance with corona protection measures at Airbus before the outbreak. The review at the time was rather mediocre.

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Hamburg: Falkland special flight takes off on Sunday

On Sunday, Lufthansa will operate the longest non-stop flight in the company's history under flight number LH2574. The Airbus A350-900 with the registration D-AIXP will fly researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute from Hamburg to Mount Pleasant on the Falkland Islands. The distance is 13.700 kilometers. The charter flight is scheduled to take off at around 21:30 p.m. with 16 crew members.

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Hamburg: British mutation detected at Airbus

Around 500 employees of the Hamburg Airbus plant are still in quarantine. The responsible health authority has now announced that the British mutation has been detected in seven of the 21 infected people so far. According to the authority, there are also five more positive cases that were not yet known at the weekend. Where

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Luxair depends on Saarbrücken

From March 2021, the airline Luxair will no longer have a stopover in Saarbrücken on the Luxembourg-Hamburg route. The route will be served non-stop in the future. But this has consequences for the Saarland airport: Not only will it lose the route to the Hanseatic city, but Luxair will also be leaving the airport. Some time ago, Luxair stopped

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String concert: Ryanair returns to eleven German airports

The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is cutting flights 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. The cuts will hit Berlin-Brandenburg Airport the hardest, with eleven destinations being eliminated. In addition to the German capital airport, Frankfurt-Hahn, Weeze, Bremen, Nuremberg, Cologne/Bonn,

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