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Frankfurt: Condor takes on Johannesburg
The German holiday airline Condor is planning to offer a total of 2022 long-haul destinations in the 23/21 winter flight schedule. With Johannesburg, a new destination is offered from Frankfurt am Main, which is served on Mondays and Fridays
Also in the DA-CH region: Air Canada announces a big comeback
Canadian Star Alliance member Air Canada announces that the flight connection between Toronto and Vienna will be reactivated effective March 26, 2022. Gradually from March 1, 2022
Düsseldorf: Eurowings launches new winter routes
The airline Eurowings is planning to include three new destinations from Düsseldorf in the 2022/23 winter flight schedule. These are Agadir, Luleå and Kiruna. The sister company EW Discover will be the first named
Lufthansa Group partially suspends Ukraine flights
The Lufthansa Group will no longer fly to the Ukrainian airports of Odessa and Kiev-Borispil until further notice. Since Monday, the connections of Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa have been indefinite
Lufthansa: No solution for Germanwings pilots yet
The Lufthansa Group is currently only recording around half of the passengers it had in the first quarter of 2019. Nevertheless, one sees clear signs of recovery and wants to get going
Condor scraps Calgary and absorbs Tbilisi
The German airline Condor will serve two weekly rotations between Frankfurt am Main and Tbilisi in the 2022 summer flight schedule. The flights are to be operated on the traffic days Thursday and Sunday. The
Munich-Graz will be included in October 2020
Lufthansa announces the resumption of five further European destinations from the Munich hub. From September 7, 2020, Sibiu / Hermannstadt, Kiev, Gothenburg and Marseille will be served again. October 5th
Munich improves rail connections
While other construction projects cannot (yet) be implemented due to the corona crisis, the “Erdinger Ringschluss” project has reached a further milestone: The Bavarian Transport Minister Kerstin Schreyer and the Group representative of the Germans
Lübeck Air will take off on August 17, 2020
The airport's own start-up Lübeck Air will be offering a daily flight between the Hanseatic city and Stuttgart from August 17, 2020. An ATR72-500 operated by Air Alsie is used, which is powered by
Emirates and Etihad are back in Munich
Return to the Bavarian capital: Emirates resumed scheduled flights for passengers between its hub in Dubai and Munich yesterday, Wednesday. The flights will be with a Boeing 777-300 ER
United returns to Bavaria
From Munich across the pond: With immediate effect, the American airline United Airlines is resuming its flight connection to Washington. United Airlines is the first airline from the United States
Munich reports a historic low
In the first half of 2020, Munich Franz Josef Strauss Airport recorded the lowest number of passengers since the airport opened. The volume fell by two thirds compared to the record year 2019. The
Refunds: Easyjet supposedly fast
Many people felt left alone when thousands of flights were suddenly canceled and the tickets, often already paid for, became worthless as a result. Because although passengers have in such situations
Berlin: Wisag files for bankruptcy
The corona crisis has hit the ground service provider at Tegel Airport hard. Now they are finally pulling the rip cord: As the Verdi union reports, bankruptcy has been filed for the company. The
Precautionary deletion: Airline has to pay
Occasionally, airlines inform their passengers about the decision to cancel the connection the day before when there are severe weather forecasts. Bad weather is usually considered an exceptional circumstance and
Ryanair closes German bases
The German regional airports Frankfurt-Hahn and Weeze could face hard times, because the main customer Ryanair is holding out the prospect of closing the bases. Berlin-Tegel is also shaking, as can be seen from an internal circular.
Schönefeld and Tegel on the upswing
Compared to May 2020, the number of passengers tripled, but it is still more than 95 percent below the previous year's figure. The Berlin airports Schönefeld and Tegel
Kolba warns of a German voucher solution
Austrians should not accept compulsory vouchers, which are now covered by the government of the Federal Republic, but insist on the payment of their claims. Voucher instead of reimbursement: recently the organizers of canceled package tours have been allowed
