Frankfurt

German carrier Lufthansa will be boosting its services to the United States from its two hubs in Frankfurt and Munich for the 2024 summer season. The carrier will be offering three new routes. From Frankfurt, the airline will launch services to Minneapolis/St Paul and Raleigh-Durham. These two destinations will each be served with five weekly frequencies. The flights...

After Anantara, the Thai group Minor is pushing ahead with another of its brands in Europe, Avani. Owner of the Spanish group NH Hotels since 2019 and of the Portuguese hotelier Tivoli since 2016, Minor had already started to build up the network of its Anantara luxury brand some time ago with the takeover of The Marker hotel in Dublin,...

A black day for Lufthansa and Frankfurt airport. The German carrier and its hub were severely disrupted on Wednesday by a computer breakdown. This led to the suspension of most landings and the cancellation of many flights. In order to avoid any speculation linked to the geopolitical context, the two players involved quickly...

Lufthansa will continue to densify its network in summer 2023 by adding seven destinations in Europe from its Frankfurt and Munich hubs. In total, the German airline will offer more than 205 destinations worldwide, almost as many as before the coronavirus pandemic. With 5,200 weekly frequencies, the number of routes from...

NH Hotels is making a name for itself in Frankfurt. Last autumn, the city welcomed a Nhow, in keeping with the tone of Germany's financial capital, with its 375 rooms decorated with wallpaper reminiscent of banknotes and its 18 studious meeting rooms. A top-of-the-range lifestyle hotel...

Pop art-style banknotes on the walls and ceilings, a staircase with a tumble of stylised coins, and gold, lots of gold: what better place than Frankfurt, home of the European Central Bank and Germany's main stock exchange, to open a hotel with a design based on the 'Art of Money'?

No fewer than 800 flights were cancelled on Friday by Lufthansa, whose operations are paralysed by a strike initiated by the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots' union. In other words, almost all of the airline's operations to and from its Frankfurt and Munich hubs have ground to a halt. A total of 130,000...

As the MICE world gathers in Frankfurt these days for the IMEX trade fair, the Marriott group has unveiled a new establishment for its JW Marriott luxury brand, marking the brand's debut in Germany. Following recent openings in Sao Paulo and Istanbul, and already well-established in South America, the...

When it opened in the early 1970s, it was the tallest skyscraper in Frankfurt, if not Germany, at 116 metres. Afe Tower, which belonged to Goethe University, dominated Germany's financial metropolis for a long time before it was demolished in 2014. A new tower has now taken its place, the One...

The German Ruby Hotels group is expanding its offering on its home turf. The lifestyle brand has just opened a new hotel in Frankfurt, adding to those in Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Munich, as well as in Vienna, to complement those already established in the German-speaking area. "Frankfurt, as a financial hub, is a prime location for Ruby, and an ideal place to...

The Covid crisis has had a lasting impact on Air Astana's business. Kazakhstan's national airline, which had become a specialist in air transport between Europe and Asia, has been forced to completely review its strategy. At a recent conference, the CEO of Air Astana, Peter Foster, explained that "the market in South-East Asia is at the point...

Condor has set itself the target of driving German tourists to the beaches of the Var region and escorting business travellers from Toulon to Germany's financial capital on their return, with the launch of a new Toulon-Frankfurt flight on 20 May. This new route will operate until 23 October 2020 with three flights a week, every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

Lufthansa is clearly paying particular attention to the French regions. Already present on the Nantes-Munich, Bordeaux-Frankfurt and Marseille-Zurich routes, the German group is pursuing this decentralised approach with the forthcoming opening of a flight between Rennes and Frankfurt. "We are convinced that there is a major dynamic in the French regions, where we offer two thirds of our services.

A team can achieve so much more than an individual alone. Imagine the commercial success that can result from close collaboration between peers and competitors, from bringing together professionals from all walks of life, or even from the unexpected and inspiring ideas that spontaneously emerge from these meetings. Bringing together some 3,500 exhibitors from...

After inaugurating two hotels in Frankfurt city centre, Hampton by Hilton is completing its offer and opening its doors close to the German hub. Located in Gateway Gardens, a new business district, the hotel is just a few minutes from terminals 1 and 2 and around twenty kilometres by car from the city centre. The...

Until 8pm this Tuesday 15 January, a strike by security staff at Frankfurt airport will block the German hub. "Passengers departing from Frankfurt will not be able to pass through the legally required security checks and get to their flights. We therefore strongly advise all passengers arriving from Frankfurt...

Lufthansa has just opened a third business lounge at Frankfurt airport, in the Schengen zone of Terminal 1A, opposite gate A26. With a surface area of 1,100 m², the Panorama Lounge increases the number of seats available by 40 %. Business travellers with access to this lounge will be able to sit in one of the...

The big event in the meetings & events sector is approaching: IMEX 2018 kicks off in Frankfurt on 15 May. For three days, the various players in the market will be meeting as usual at the Messe Frankfurt exhibition centre. Buyers, suppliers and other specialists in the MICE industry will have the opportunity to...

The big event is approaching: on 16 May, the 2017 edition of IMEX, the benchmark event for the international MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Convention, Events) market, gets underway. On the programme: three days of conferences, negotiations and meetings between suppliers and buyers, once again at the epicentre of Frankfurt's event industry, the Messe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3EF22B12w And for...

With 223.2 million passengers, German air transport is the third largest generator of traffic, after Great Britain (more than 260 million passengers) and Spain (230 million). This puts Germany ahead of Italy (160 million passengers) and France (154.5 million passengers). However, the growth in air traffic in Germany has not...