
Spohr: New foundation will be “a kind of second city line”
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr wants to set up a kind of "Cityline clone" for short and medium-haul flights from Frankfurt am Main and Munich. During the press conference about the annual figures, he gave more details

Frankfurt: Condor has reactivated Las Vegas
The German leisure airline Condor has reactivated non-stop flights from Frankfurt to Las Vegas under flight number DE2062. The route will now be served on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday traffic days. "We

Lufthansa remains deep in the red
The Lufthansa Group closed the 2021 financial year with an adjusted EBIT of EUR -2,2 billion. This was significantly better than in the first Corona year, because in 2020

Air Dolomiti takes delivery of two Embraer 195s from Cityline
The Italian Lufthansa subsidiary Air Dolomiti is adding two Embraer 195 regional jets to its fleet. These will carry the registrations I-JENB and I-ADJZ and should be available in the next few weeks

Lufthansa supervisory board extends contracts with Foerster and Niggemann
The Lufthansa Supervisory Board decided on Wednesday that the contracts with Executive Board members Christina Foerster and Michael Niggemann would be extended by five years until December 31, 2027. At the same time

Lufthansa wants to outsource short and medium-haul routes to a new subsidiary
The most recent negotiations between Lufthansa and the Cockpit Association have not resulted in a compromise. Now the Kranich Group wants a new subsidiary that will handle short and medium-haul routes from Frankfurt and Munich

Sun-Air sends its German subsidiary into bankruptcy
The Germany subsidiary of the regional airline Sun-Air of Scandinavia, Sun-Air of Germany GmbH, filed for bankruptcy with the Augsburg District Court. A court spokesman confirmed on request that a corresponding submission would be made on January 12, 2021

CityLine members accept crisis collective agreement
The flight attendants from Lufthansa CItyLine, organized in the UFO union, have accepted the crisis collective agreement agreed with the management by a large majority. According to a statement by the employee representatives, 91,06 percent of the votes

Munich reports 76,8 percent fewer passengers
In the previous year, the Franz-Josef-Strauss Airport in Munich had the lowest number of passengers since it opened in 1992. The second largest airport in Germany handled around eleven million passengers. In direct comparison with

SkyUp Airlines is expanding strongly into Germany
The Ukrainian low-cost airline SkyUp Airlines announces a large-scale expansion towards Western Europe. Most of the new routes will lead from Kiev-Borispil to Germany. But also from Odessa and Lviv wants

Comeback: Bin Air regains AOC
The German airline Bin Air is about to make a comeback: two years after the withdrawal of the AOC, the carrier was able to regain it shortly before Christmas. The German Federal Aviation Office issued Bin

S7 resumes flights to Munich
From December 28th, the Russian S7 Airlines will again offer weekly flights from Munich to Moscow. Tickets for the flights are already available everywhere, as the company says. Carried out

ADAC gives Stuttgart special "Award"
Airport is the test winner in the bus station category. There are so many prizes and awards in the aviation industry that one can almost be of the opinion that there are for every airport and

Friday: Verdi calls for rallies
Obtaining state aid and dismissing employees at the same time? In Verdi's eyes, that doesn't work at all. For this reason, demonstrations will take place across Germany on Friday. The Verdi union called on Friday

Stuttgart: slope renovation finished in time for summer
The “Corona break” was used in Stuttgart to renovate the only runway. The construction work is now complete. After the long-planned construction work was brought forward by a few days at short notice due to the pandemic,

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

Germanwings crash: court rejects claims
In the process after the crash of a Germanwings machine, the Essen regional court rejected the complaints of the bereaved for additional pain payments. Since the tragic incident in March 2015, the relatives of the

BER before 535 job cuts
The new Berlin-Brandenburg Airport has been in operation for four weeks and the southern runway and Terminal 5 are about to be closed. In addition, 535 jobs are now to be cut. This announced

Green Airlines blows off the start again
The startup Green Airlines is postponing its first charter flight for the second time at extremely short notice. Now they don't want to start until February 1st, 2021. Previously, it was postponed from November 1, 2020

BER takes the Südbahn off the network
The management of Berlin-Brandenburg Airport sees no prospect of recovery in the aviation industry in 2021. The number of passengers is currently around ten percent of the same month last year. Now you want action

Air Berlin's ghost shares are soaring
An airline that doesn't fly and is broke at that seems to be of interest to punters at the moment. We are talking about Air Berlin, because the paper, which is still listed on the stock exchange, laid down

Berlin wants to temporarily close Terminal 5
Flughafen Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH will shortly take Terminal 5 (“Ex-Schönefeld”) offline. However, not in the short term, but probably in March 2021 and then for at least a year. The number of passengers

Financial situation: Daldrup threatened to close the BER
It sounds like a coup d'état: Berlin-Brandenburg Airport has not even been in operation for three weeks and the operating company is already threatening to close the airport. Knows how that works