Lufthansa

Just 20 years ago, we could never have imagined that Europe's skies would be so competitive, a commercial war that has resulted in a plethora of services on offer. On the Paris-Rome route, for example, business travellers can choose between no fewer than five airlines: traditional carriers such as Air France and Alitalia, of course...

55 minutes: this is the flight time planned by Lufthansa to link Strasbourg to its Munich hub. This service will operate five times a week from 9 April, and should be of interest to many business travellers, not only for their trips to Bavaria, but also to all the destinations on offer in Europe.

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...

BCD Travel will be testing reservations using the New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard in partnership with the Lufthansa Group, parent company of the German airline as well as Austrian Airlines, Swiss and Brussels Airlines. This new distribution standard created by IATA is based on the use of XML technology to facilitate the exchange of information between airlines...

The Lufthansa Group's segmentation strategy - with a premium offer bringing together Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines and Swiss, and a point-to-point service bringing together Brussels Airlines and Eurowings - has enabled the German airline and its subsidiaries to establish a strong presence on the French market. As Michael Gloor, Senior Director Sales Lufthansa Group in...

Etihad's financial situation - severely damaged by the carrier's unfortunate investments in "lame ducks" - and the fierce competition with its competitor Emirates and rival Qatar Airways, are weighing on the future of the Abu Dhabi carrier. A few months ago, the rating agency Fitch indicated that the airline...

The new mobile application launched by the Lufthansa Group in July could soon be making a name for itself on business travellers' smartphones. The first version of Airline Checkins already made it possible to book flights and check in directly via the app, not only on Lufthansa flights but also and above all on some 200 airlines...

While Eurowings will now manage all the short-haul business of the two airlines from Cologne, Brussels Airlines will be responsible for long-haul flights spread over the airports of Brussels, Munich and Düsseldorf. In an interview with the Belgian media, Thorsten Dirks, CEO of Eurowings, stated that "the pooling of our strengths with Brussels Airlines will strengthen our...

On 2 July, Lufthansa announced a new passenger check-in application called Airline Checkins, compatible with over 200 airlines. Designed by the Lufthansa Innovation Hub, it enables passengers to book flights and check in directly via the app. Contrary to the general trend where each carrier deploys its own solution, the services offered...

From this summer, passengers of the Lufthansa Group - which also includes Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Swiss - will be able to travel to North America at a new low fare, "Economy Light". This fare offers one main advantage: the basic price. It offers no booking flexibility and does not include baggage...

The airport is definitely a popular playground for robots. In the wake of experiments carried out by JAL in Tokyo Haneda and Air New Zealand in Sydney, Lufthansa is now getting in on the act. The German group has deployed Josie Pepper in Terminal 2 at Munich airport. This...

Making the passenger journey smoother has been a priority for airlines for several years now. Lufthansa's latest move is part of this approach, with automatic check-in now available to its passengers. Business travellers making an intra-European business trip will now receive their boarding pass 23 hours before departure...

Lufthansa has just announced the introduction of new flights to Frankfurt from two French airports. From spring 2018, the German group will be adding a morning flight between Marseille and Frankfurt, and no fewer than four additional connections between Toulouse and Frankfurt. The new Marseille-Frankfurt route will start on 25 March, with a departure...

Business travellers won't be able to try it out until 2020, but they can already appreciate the comfort of Lufthansa's future Business Class. Without waiting for the first Boeing B 777-9s to be deployed in its fleet, the German airline has unveiled the concept of its new Business Class. The Boeing 777-9s will feature a...

It's 2010 and British Airways has noticed that its image as an innovative player, which had largely characterised it in the 90s, is beginning to fade. The airline felt that it needed a serious marketing overhaul, and that year it revived the slogan that had long accompanied its image: "To Fly. To Serve". This tarnished aura...

Airlines are well aware that flexibility is a key factor in attracting business customers. The Lufthansa group is therefore stepping up a gear by launching a new offer this month, which applies to Austrian Airlines, SWISS and, of course, Lufthansa. Passengers in Economy Flex, Business Class flexible...

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...

Following its appearance on long-haul flights, in-flight WiFi is now being introduced on the short- and medium-haul routes of Lufthansa Group airlines. By the end of the first quarter of 2017, the Ka-band technology developed by Inmarsat will be present on 20 of the German carrier's aircraft, then, as...

As the launch airline for the Airbus A320neo, Lufthansa took delivery of its fifth new-generation aircraft at the end of December. The German airline has positioned this more fuel-efficient and quieter aircraft on its domestic routes from Frankfurt as well as on several European routes, notably to Oslo, Stockholm and Barcelona. A further ten of these single-aisle aircraft...

The agreement signed on Friday by Lufthansa and Etihad is a further step on the road to cooperation, even if it remains - for the time being - modest in scope. It simply provides for a code-share agreement on the Frankfurt-Abu Dhabi and Munich-Abu Dhabi routes (served by Etihad) and on the Frankfurt-Bogota and Frankfurt-Rio de Janeiro routes (served by...