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European airlines are flying from strength to strength this year with talk of an economic slowdown seemingly just a memory.
Edward Russell | 9 months ago
Airline Weekly
Switzerland is good for more than just chocolates and cheese at the Lufthansa Group.
1 year ago
News Blog
Lufthansa has suffered an "IT outage," prompting the German airline group to delay and cancel all its flights. "Currently, the airlines of the Lufthansa Group are affected by an IT outage," the company said in a social media post on Wednesday morning. "This is causing flight delays and cancellations. We regret the inconvenience this is…
Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago
EasyJet and Ryanair's struggles in Berlin are Eurowings' gain.
Blended travel isn't the only thing that Lufthansa Group CEO Carsten Spohr is looking forward to. Limits on adding back flights and strong travel demand are boosting the bottom line.
Pilots at Eurowings have a lot of leverage now given the labor shortage and all of the disruption taking place at European airports.
Llona Wissenbach and Tom Sims, Reuters | 2 years ago
The Lufthansa Group cannot catch a break. Pilots at its budget subsidiary, Eurowings, will go on strike Thursday unless a last minute deal on wages can be reached. Pilots union Vereinigung Cockpit said Tuesday that wage negotiations had "failed" and called for a one-day strike on October 6. The move came after 10 rounds of…
Edward Russell | 2 years ago
These days, pilot demands for automatic inflation compensation would be a very nice perk indeed.
Ilona Wissenbach, Reuters | 2 years ago
Airline operations are in shambles this summer. What happened?
Lufthansa and Eurowings have cancelled more than 1,000 flights in July as airport staffing issues take a toll on air travel in Europe this summer. Lufthansa has cut 900 domestic Germany and European flights in July, and its discount affiliate Eurowings "several hundred flights" in order to stabilize their operations, Eurowings said Wednesday. Lufthansa's cuts…
