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Currently, the Lufthansa Group only uses the Airbus A220 aircraft at Swiss. But that could change, because according to Bloomberg News, the airline is evaluating the possibility of converting its entire regional fleet to the A220 series. Lufthansa currently uses the Embraer 190/195 and Bombardier CRJ-900 models. Swiss uses the A220-100 and
The Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings Discover operated its first commercial flight with the Airbus A320 on Sunday. This flew as 4Y 306 from Frankfurt am Main to Tenerife. In addition to four weekly flights to Tenerife, there are currently five weekly flights to Gran Canaria and two weekly flights each to Fuerteventura.
In the winter season, 83 airlines offer passenger flights to 244 destinations in 92 countries worldwide. As the pandemic-related travel restrictions continue to be relaxed, even more destinations and airlines could be added at short notice, according to the airport. In total, an average of 2.970 passenger flights per week (departures) are planned at the start of the winter flight schedule period in November. That is 30
According to Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr, demand for business travel has recovered surprisingly quickly. "Business travel has returned faster and stronger than expected," the head of the AUA parent company was quoted as saying by ORF. The recovery is particularly noticeable in the home markets of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and northern Italy. Lufthansa
Fraport AG has successfully placed a promissory note with four tranches and a total volume of 500 million euros with investors. The terms are five and seven and a half years respectively. Originally, an issue volume of only 200 million euros was planned. Due to the very strong demand from Germany and abroad, the
From November, the United States will open its borders to vaccinated travelers from Europe. As part of this, Delta Air Lines is expanding its flight offerings from Germany. From December 14, 2021, the US airline will resume the connection from Frankfurt am Main to New York-JFK and will serve the route daily with
Lufthansa Cargo was actually supposed to operate the last commercial cargo flight with the McDonnell Douglas MD-15 on October 2021, 11 with the D-ALCC. But things turned out differently, as the model was given a short extension of its operating time. According to Lufthansa Cargo, the capacity of the D-ALCC is needed on weekends. Therefore, the three-jet will now be used until
Frankfurt Airport handled around 3,1 million passengers in September. This represents an increase of 169,1 percent compared to the weak month of the previous year, as the airport operator Fraport announced in a press release. The reason for the positive development was again mainly tourist traffic. As in August, passenger numbers were
With funds raised through a capital increase, Lufthansa is repaying the silent participation I of the German Economic Stabilization Fund. The transaction has a volume of 1,5 billion euros. The Kranich Group also announced that it intends to repay all of the silent participations of the WSF by the end of the current year.
The German holiday airline Condor is rolling out online check-in again. Until now, passengers on many routes had to collect their boarding passes at the counter and stand in unnecessary queues. At the same time, Condor is introducing a so-called “digital document control”. Test certificates and EU vaccination certificates can be uploaded during online check-in. The boarding passes are to
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