Germany
Lufthansa, the most likely candidate to take over Air Berlin
At the end of April, Air Berlin presented its results for the first quarter of 2017. This was an opportunity to demonstrate the severity of the cure administered at the time by the airline's management, in a last-ditch attempt to save the carrier: the fleet was down by 45%, with 75 aircraft instead of 136 in 2016; the...
Air Berlin files for bankruptcy, relying on Lufthansa
After several difficult months for airberlin, the verdict is in: the airline has filed for bankruptcy, after accumulating losses for several months. A week earlier, majority shareholder Etihad had refused to bail out the German carrier. The restructuring of Etihad's European investments had been "in the pipeline" for several weeks, with the airline now looking to...
Munich gains strength with the Lufthansa group
Lufthansa's second hub in Europe, Munich, is set to become even stronger in the coming months. The introduction of the winter timetable at the end of October will mean the opening of three new destinations in Europe: Nantes (with a daily flight), Glasgow (four times a week) and Santiago de Compostela (once a week). On the intercontinental front,...
Germany: air transport loses competitiveness
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...
German business travel targeted by Moxy Hotels
The German market is clearly of crucial importance in the European expansion strategy of Moxy, the lifestyle brand unveiled in 2013 by the Marriott hotel group. After inaugurating a strategic address for business travellers on the airport site in Munich last April, it is now Frankfurt's turn to have a Moxy establishment. Frankfurt,...
Frankfurt - Business as a way of life
More concentrated than Berlin and its political institutions, but also more studious, Frankfurt has grown vertically. The towers of the Bankenviertel, the "banking district", embody the power of Germany's economic capital, shaping the skyline of an entire city to the point of costing it its image. Long accused of having sold its soul to the bankers,...
Hamburg: address book
Telephone: +49 (Germany), (0)40 (Hamburg). Getting there AIR FRANCE offers four daily flights from Paris CDG, with a flight time of 1? hours. In addition, the national airline operates three flights a week between Toulouse and the German city, both of which are Airbus headquarters. Journey time: 2h15. All...
Berlin Mediaspree: alternative business
Transforming a former industrial district, now the uncertain heart of alternative Berlin, into a mixed-use district on the banks of the River Spree, where the stars of the international media industry and other companies attracted by this 'trendy' environment would set up shop: that was the whole point of the project launched at the turn of the millennium... Where,...
Hamburg Hafencity: the new gateway to the world
Since 1 March 2008, Hamburg has been home to a new district: HafenCity, a succession of islands reclaimed from the Elbe. The destiny of this laboratory for the future of the great Hanseatic city changed in 2000, when it was decided to convert the docks of Germany's largest port into offices and flats. The idea is obviously not new,...
Hamburg: address book
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] S’y rendre Air France propose quatre vols quotidiens entre Paris Charles de Gaulle (terminal 2) et Hambourg, deux vols par jour depuis Lyon en semaine ainsi que quatre vols hebdomadaires depuis Marseille et cinq vols par semaine depuis Toulouse. Tél. : 0 820 320 820 Internet : www.airfrance.fr Lufthansa propose, en semaine, trois vols…
Berlin: address book
Identity card Area code: + 49 (Germany), 30 (Berlin) Time difference: none Getting there AirBerlin: Germany's second largest airline, founded in 1978 in Berlin, operates 12 flights a week from Paris with fares starting at e44.99. Although service on board is simple, newspapers are distributed...
Cologne: A business tour of the business capital of north-west Germany...
With just over a million inhabitants, Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city, behind Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. But above all, it is the largest city in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, with 10 million inhabitants living in one of Europe's major economic centres. Europe: that's the cradle and natural horizon of this city...
