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ATHENS, March 18, 2024 (AFP) – A Lufthansa flight with 190 passengers on board made an emergency landing Monday in Rhodes after reporting smoke in the cabin, according to the operator of Greek regional airports, Fraport. The pilot of the aircraft travelling from Frankfurt to Dubai requested permission to land on the southern Aegean island due to “the presence of smoke inside the plane”, said Fraport. The passengers were safely evacuated from the aircraft, which […]
FRANKFURT, Germany, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – Up to 90 percent of Lufthansa’s flight schedule will be cancelled Wednesday due to a walkout by ground staff, the carrier warned, the latest strike-related travel chaos to hit Germany. Some 25,000 staff will take part in the walkout over pay, which will last for around 27 hours from 4:00 am (0300 GMT), the union Verdi announced this week. The strike will affect Germany’s biggest airport in Frankfurt […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Lufthansa said Wednesday the German state had sold the stake it took in the airline as part of a rescue package at the peak of the Covid pandemic, and booked a healthy profit in the process. In the spring of 2020, borders were shutting worldwide, forcing airlines everywhere to ground planes and put staff put on forced leave. To save Lufthansa from bankruptcy, the German government took a 20-percent stake in […]
FRANKFUTR AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — German airline giant Lufthansa said Friday it will fly twice as many aircraft in June as in recent weeks and return to some European destinations, but the flight plan remains a shadow of pre-coronavirus operations. Spots beloved of holidaymakers like Spanish island Mallorca, Crete and German North Sea retreat Sylt will return to the timetable, with 160 aircraft aloft bearing Lufthansa’s crane or the logos of subsidiaries Swiss […]
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — German airline giant Lufthansa said Wednesday it would ground 150 of its more than 750 planes worldwide, days after announcing a slimmed-down timetable over the effects of the novel coronavirus. “25 long-haul aircraft and 125 short- and medium-haul aircraft” will no longer fly, a spokesman for the group also including carriers Eurowings, Austrian and Swiss told AFP. Shares in Lufthansa have plunged in recent days as the likely impact […]
(Reuters) — German airline Lufthansa cancelled 1,450 flights after a pilots union called for a strike on Monday (October 20) and Tuesday, adding to travellers’ misery after millions were left stranded by a weekend-long train drivers’ stoppage. Lufthansa said late on Sunday more than 200,000 passengers and two thirds of its scheduled flights – short and mid-length services, mostly within Europe – would be affected by the strike. Both the pilots’ and train drivers’ strikes hit at […]
(Reuters) — Air France pilots began a one-week strike over company plans to cut costs to recapture market share from budget airlines on Monday (September 15). Air France said on its web site it expected to operate 48 percent of its flights on Monday, but “last minute disturbances are not excluded”. Air France Chief Executive Frederic Gagey said on the weekend the strike, which could run until Sept. 22, would cost the airline between 10 and 15 million euros […]
(Reuters) — Lufthansa cancelled some 3,800 flights as pilots began a three-day walkout on Wednesday (April 2), in what is one of the biggest strikes ever to hit the German airline. Vereinigung Cockpit, the union representing most of Lufthansa’s 5,400 pilots, last week said it was calling for a three-day strike from April 2 over plans by Germany’s largest airline to scrap an early retirement deal. Although Lufthansa had improved its offer, the pilots said […]
