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Frankfurt Airport recommends booking parking spaces in advance
Frankfurt airport operator Fraport strongly recommends booking a parking space in the airport's multi-storey car parks in advance. Frankfurt Airport expects an increased number of passengers during the summer holidays and counts on it every day
Shortage of staff: Eurowings and Lufthansa are cutting flight schedules
Due to a lack of staff, Lufthansa and Eurowings will have to cancel hundreds of flights in July 2022. At the Kranich alone, around 900 connections were canceled and eliminated at the Munich and Frankfurt am Main hubs
After Palma and Rhodes: Condor deploys fourth A330-200
The German holiday airline Condor put the fourth Airbus A330-200 into active scheduled service on Saturday. The D-AIYA was initially used between Frankfurt am Main and Palma de Mallorca. the
9H-AHUB: Condor lets Airhub-A340 fly as “Mallorca Shuttle”.
The German holiday airline Condor recorded a particularly high demand in the direction of Palma de Mallorca over Pentecost. Therefore, with the 9H-AHUB, an Airbus A340-313 was put on a wet lease at short notice. operator
Frankfurt Airport opens second room of silence
At Frankfurt Airport, travelers and visitors now have another opportunity to escape the hustle and bustle at the airport for a moment: Terminal 2 is now also available
Korean Air increases frequency to Frankfurt and resumes passenger flights to Vienna
With the worldwide easing of the corona protection measures, Korean Air is also offering more flights again: From June 14, 2022, the South Korean airline will increase the offer on the Seoul/Incheon route –
Business Class: Lufthansa relies on German cuisine
From September 1, 2021 Lufthansa will be serving mainly German cuisine in Business Class on short and medium-haul flights. Under the motto “Tasting Heimat” they want highlights from Germany
With Lufthansa without quarantine to Singapore
Entering Singapore for fully vaccinated travelers from Germany will be possible again from September 8th. A previously prescribed quarantine on arrival in Singapore will no longer apply from this point in time.
Munich breaks the 70.000 daily mark
Munich Airport was able to achieve another milestone in terms of recovery in passenger numbers: Last Saturday, the airport counted more than 9 passengers for the first time since March 2020, 70.000
Air Canada specifies Munich comeback
The Star Alliance member Air Canada will soon be serving the Munich-Toronto route three times a week again. Long-haul Boeing 787-9 jets are used as aircraft. The Canadian government announced
ADAC: First H145 with five-blade rotor taken over
ADAC Luftrettung took over the first two H145 helicopters with five-blade rotors. These are now being prepared for the needs for rescue operations. The existing fleet is also to be converted to five-bladed rotors
Paderborn: Lufthansa announces Munich comeback
The connection to the Lufthansa hub in Munich is to be reactivated in Paderborn on September 13, 2021. The flights are to be carried out with Lufthansa Cityline's Bombardier CRJ-900. Subject to negative developments
Stuttgart Airport paralyzed with flour, sugar and baking powder
Stuttgart-Echterdingen Airport was closed for several hours on Thursday evening for security reasons. The cause was not exactly common, because a "baking mix", which is packaged in the form of sugar, flour and baking powder
De-icing in winter makes flying safe
In winter, passengers often experience that the aircraft is driven onto a platform before take-off and is then sprayed. This process, known as “de-icing”, is used for safety, because ice formation
Smartline serves Graz-Stuttgart with the business jet
The Vorarlberg airline company has been serving the route from Graz to Stuttgart that has been suspended by Austrian Airlines for a few days on behalf of a German broker. Two circuits are carried out per week. For use
Nuremberg: employees paint walls instead of aircraft handling
Due to the corona crisis, the volume of traffic at Nuremberg Airport is currently limited. The airport got creative and uses the staff, who have little work due to the low demand,
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
NUE: Lowest passenger volume in decades
Exactly 917.296 passengers used Albrecht Dürer Airport Nuremberg in the Corona year. Nuremberg Airport has not written such bad numbers for more than 30 years. Most recently in 1985
Münster Higher Administrative Court overturns German “forced quarantine”
A ruling by the Münster Higher Administrative Court could have a nationwide impact: The court overturned the quarantine obligation for returnees from risk areas defined by the Robert Koch Institute and found that people from regions
Graz: Austrian suspends Stuttgart and Düsseldorf
There will be less going on at Graz Airport in the future because KLM is suspending the Amsterdam connection. Now it comes to the fact that Austrian Airlines the non-stop flights to Stuttgart and Dusseldorf in a second "Corona break"
Eurowings starts rapid tests in Düsseldorf
After Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa, Eurowings now also wants to introduce rapid corona tests. These should initially be offered in Düsseldorf from the end of the year. In the first phase, passengers traveling to holiday destinations should
Eurowings: Beirut from Berlin, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart
The low-cost airline Eurowings will start non-stop flights from Berlin-Brandenburg, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart to Beirut from December 19, 2020. From the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Erbil is also offered. During the flights from Berlin
Friedrichshafen: Sun Air postpones comeback to August 2021
The British Airways franchisee Sun Air of Scandinavia actually wanted to reactivate at least the Düsseldorf route from Friedrichshafen shortly before Christmas 2020. From Billund they wanted to fly again from the beginning of November 2020. Wanted,
Emirates is celebrating its comeback in Hamburg and Düsseldorf
After a long break due to the corona pandemic, Emirates is back at the German airports in Hamburg and Düsseldorf. The two airports have been departing from Dubai again since Sunday
German Airways no longer flies for Green Airlines either
The ticket marketer Green Airlines is now completely without an “airline partner” because German Airways announced on Monday that it will no longer fly for this client with immediate effect. Last
Holiday flights: Green Airlines no longer has a “flight partner”
The charter marketer Green Airlines has finally ceased sales on the holiday routes from Groningen, Paderborn and Rostock-Laage due to a lack of “flight partners”. A few days ago the company posted on the homepage
Green Airlines is avoiding compensation
The German charter marketer Green Airlines strictly refuses to make compensation payments under EU regulation 261/2004 to those passengers who have been left sitting. Not only that the legal rights to care services and
Varadi: “Unions? Then we close the base! "
Should Wizzair get into "trouble" with the unions in Dortmund, the base will be closed again and the planes relocated to other airports. Company boss Varadi is even of the opinion that
New base: Wizzair is based in Dortmund
Wizzair wants to really take off in Dortmund with three aircraft that will be used on 18 new routes. The carrier decided to set up the first base in Germany. The Hungarian
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
BER cracked the 50.000 passenger mark
Berlin-Brandenburg Airport counted around 51.000 travelers in one day for the first time on Friday. The passenger volume is thus well below the figures for summer travel in 2019 with up to 120.000 passengers
Easyjet builds a new hangar in Berlin
The low-cost airline Easyjet will build a new maintenance hangar on the area of Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. This should be completed by August 2023. Afterwards, machines of the A320 series are looked after here. The
Deutsche Bahn cuts express trains to BER
Berlin-Brandenburg Airport is enjoying increasing passenger numbers again, but Deutsche Bahn is now making it complicated for travelers. During the main holiday season, of all times, construction work is carried out that leads to the
Delayed insolvency at Air Berlin? BGH has the proceedings repeated
Air Berlin had to file for bankruptcy in the summer of 2017 and still employs a large number of people who have been judged. A debt collection agency was now right before the Federal Court of Justice, because the Federal Court of Justice has assigned numerous claims
DFB is looking to free Qatar Airways flights
It no longer seems to harmonize properly between the German Football Association and Lufthansa, because the crane refused - also referring to the financial consequences of the corona pandemic -
Scoot returns to Berlin via Athens
The low-cost airline Scoot wants to fly to the German capital Berlin again from August 10, 2021. Boeing 787 Dreamliner machines are to be used. For the time being, three rotations per week are planned.
