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Both the major hotel groups and the main airlines can be delighted with the results presented for the third quarter of the year. The period was buoyed by leisure customers, and in particular the welcome upturn in long-haul travel, but also by a traditionally busy September for business travellers. The Accor group explains...

Allegris: that's the name given to this little revolution for business travellers on the Lufthansa network. The German airline has just unveiled what will soon be the new decor for their long-haul business trips. And this applies whether they are travelling in premium or economy class. The planned makeover...

Lufthansa is once again pounding its fists on the issue of services to Munich airport. The German hub, the country's second busiest with 12.5 million passengers in 2021 (47.9 million in 2019), has a mediocre rail network. A handful of bus routes and two S-Bahn (suburban railway) lines link...

Updated on 6/09 at 5pm. After a strike which saw Lufthansa cancel more than 800 flights from Frankfurt and Munich last weekend, the German pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit called a new strike, this time for Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 September. The...

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...

This Wednesday 27 July, the 24-hour warning strike by the Verdi union is totally disrupting air traffic to and from Germany for Lufthansa. According to information from the two airports in Frankfurt and Munich, almost all the German carrier's flights will be cancelled on 27 July. So, on departure from Paris...

Under pressure from staff recruitment difficulties following the Covid crisis, British Airways is tightening its timetable once again. The British carrier explains: "The aviation industry as a whole continues to face significant challenges and we are fully focused on strengthening the resilience of our operations...

Lufthansa is justifying its latest cuts to its summer schedules. The airline cites air safety strikes, weather events and, in particular, a higher-than-expected Covid infection rate. This is putting additional pressure on the system. "The increase in the number of Corona infections we are currently seeing across...

After the UK carriers and KLM, it is now Lufthansa's turn to announce a reduction in flights during the peak summer season. The German airline cites the shortage of airport staff - and certainly also its own staff - as a factor in delays and congestion. According to the regional television station Hessenschau -...

From July 2022, Eurowings customers will benefit exclusively from Miles & More, the Lufthansa Group's frequent flyer programme. Members of the programme will have access to numerous benefits not generally available to customers of low-cost airlines. For example, they can earn and redeem...

"In May, do as you please", they say... And Lufthansa clearly likes to do more than just air transport. Over the last few days, the German group has been diversifying its activities, announcing two new platforms in quick succession that open up new horizons. Starting with the official launch of...

The Airbus A350-900 christened "Munich" is the first aircraft in the Lufthansa fleet to offer passengers an improved business class. An improvement pending the launch of a new business class in 2023. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="134419"] The German airline has announced that next year it will overhaul all its business class...

With the lifting of many travel restrictions linked to the pandemic, airlines are returning to Munich airport this spring. For the IATA summer season, they will once again be offering more routes and connections between Europe and the rest of the world. "We are seeing a clear increase in demand at the moment...

How is the start of 2022 going for TripActions in France? Zahir Abdelouhab - We're just getting started, we're beginning to have interesting initial discussions with customers, the team is in place, we officially opened the offices in January: we're in the thick of things. The official launch was due to take place...

For the past fortnight or so, the Italian press has been buzzing with rumours about a future partner for Italy's national airline ITA. ITA, which rose from the ashes of the former Alitalia, took off in October. But it knows from the outset that it has little chance of surviving on its own in a domestic and European market...

The Lufthansa Group's route between Rennes and Frankfurt is good news for the French market. It gives Lufthansa an eleventh regular destination in France. The German airline already serves the airports of Paris CDG and Orly, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Mulhouse-Basle, Nantes, Nice, Strasbourg and Toulouse...

"HEIMAT" translates as "homeland" in French, but has a more sentimental value in German. So it is under the name "Tasting HEIMAT" that Lufthansa has just launched its new menu for business class travellers on short- and medium-haul routes. The offer has been available since September 1...

As a specialist in the payment of business travel, you can observe trends in the volume of business travel. Have you seen any signs of recovery recently? Julie Troussicot - We are indeed seeing a recovery, and this news makes us optimistic. June was a good month, equivalent for AirPlus to 50 % of what was...

If you had to describe Lufthansa's long-haul leisure strategy, "erratic" would certainly be the most appropriate word. For almost a decade, the German carrier has been trying to capture a long-haul market, either point-to-point or described as 'leisure'. However, these routes are not 'premium' enough for the airline to operate them...

The current difficulties faced by CSA, the Czech national carrier, appear to be an excellent opportunity for the Lufthansa group, which has decided to open a new Eurowings base in Prague. It will be the airline's tenth base in Europe. One man's loss is another man's gain... Czech national carrier CSA is struggling...