The German vacation airline Condor is in the ongoing dispute with the former corporate parent and appealed to the US transport authority DOT against the code share application for Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Swiss submitted by Eurowings Discover.

Condor is of the opinion that the planned code sharing should be driven out of the routes between Germany and the United States of America. According to a report by CH-Aviation.com, the holiday airline requested that DOT “investigate alleged anti-competitive practices by Lufthansa against Condor”. Furthermore, the authorities are asked to make the approval of the code shares dependent on the further granting of the special pro rate agreements between Lufthansa and Condor.

With this, Condor is trying to go another way in order to be able to continue to use Lufthansa flights as feeders for its own long-haul connections. The crane initially terminated this, but temporarily buckled due to a cartel complaint. The problem has not been solved, but rather has only been postponed by a year.

“EW Discover has applied for authorization statements for other airlines in the Lufthansa Group to place their codes on EW Discover flights in the US. Such code sharing is within the scope of the rights that EW Discover is entitled to under the applicable "Open Skies" aviation agreements. EW Discover is therefore requesting immediate approval from the department so that it can start the code sharing between the affiliated companies that is the subject of its application, ”a spokesman for Eurowings Discover told CH-Aviation.com.