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Will You Be Attending Lufthansa’s Latest Cabin Crew Open Day in Munich on 1st September?
Earlier this year, Lufthansa announced plans to hire 8,000 new employees, including 2,500 flight attendants across its group of airlines – so th…
Flight Attendants Wearing Sneakers: First Joon and Now Lufthansa Gets in on the Act
Critics scoffed when Air France launched Joon last summer – an airline designed for millennials with craft beer and flight attendants who wore t…
Ryanair and Lufthansa Have Got Themselves Into a War of Words Over a Little Known Austrian Airline
Two of Europe’s largest airlines, the low-cost Dublin-based Ryanair and Germany’s Lufthansa have got themselves into a very public and par…
Lufthansa Introduces New System to Address Sexual Harassment, Improves Training
The German airline, Lufthansa has said it is going to be “expanding” the number of systems available to staff, including cabin crew to dea…
Lufthansa Will Be Forced To Cancel 800 Flights On Tuesday: 90,000 Passengers Will Be Impacted
A massive strike by ground handling workers and security staff at several airports across Germany has forced Lufthansa to proactively cancel around 80…
Lufthansa Closes Cabin Crew Applications Due To “Overwhelming” Numbers: But Other Opportunities Exist
In an Instagram post, the German flag carrier, Lufthansa has said that while it continues to hire new cabin crew, it will be unable to accept any furt…
Inside the Strange World of Skytrax: The Aviation Rating Organization You Maybe Shouldn’t Trust
Worn as a proud badge of honour by airlines around the world, the air transport rating organisation, Skytrax has made a name for itself as the commerc…
YAWN: Lufthansa Officially ‘Unveils’ its New Brand Image – “Melon Yellow” Colour Will Remain
Good news for Lufthansa fans who feared they might miss the airline’s famous “melon yellow” brand colour – it won’t actu…
Marketing Genius or Major Fail? Lufthansa is Making the Best of Accidentally Stealing its Own Thunder
A new-look livery for German flag-carrier Lufthansa had been widely anticipated for months and ever since the rumours started, creative AvGeeks have b…
Lufthansa CEO Hints of Job Cuts at Alitalia if it Stands Any Chance of Being Saved by the German Airline
Lufthansa’s CEO, Carsten Spohr, has once again rankled Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development with demands to shrink both the number of …
Major Recruitment News: Lufthansa to Recruit Nearly 8,000 Flight Attendants in 2018
Wow! In a major recruitment news announcement, Lufthansa has laid out plans to hire around 8,000 new employees in 2018 – the airline says the &…
Lufthansa Has Just Becomes Europe’s First and Only Five Star Awarded Airline
German flag-carrier, Lufthansa has today been awarded a prestigious Five Star ranking by aviation industry rating specialists, Skytrax. Lufthansa bec…
Lufthansa Reveals Even More Details About its New Business Class Seat – Promises Bed Length of Nearly 87 Inches
A few days ago, German flag carrier, Lufthansa gave us a glimpse of what the airline’s new Business Class seat and cabin would look like when it…
Reports: Lufthansa Finally Strikes A Deal With its Pilots to Prevent More Costly Strikes
Back in March, we learnt that Lufthansa had reached a tentative deal with the labour who represent cockpit crew, Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) over a long-…
airberlin Latest: What Jobs Are Safe and What Are the Possible Stumbling Blocks?
Last week we learnt that airberlin had begun advanced talks with both Lufthansa and easyJet on taking over parts of the insolvent low-cost carrier. A…
Lufthansa Set to Snap Up 38 airberlin Aircraft and Its Cabin Crew, Eurowings Gets Go Ahead to Hire New Crew
If sources at insolvent European airline, airberlin are to be believed, Lufthansa is leading the race to acquire large chunks of the debt-ridden low-c…
Emirates is Celebrating the World Famous Oktoberfest But it Will Have to Go Some Way to Beat Lufthansa
For the first time in its history, Emirates is celebrating the world-famous event that is Oktoberfest. The 18-day Bavarian extravaganza got underway …
Ryanair Accuses Lufthansa of Foul Play Over its Bid for airberlin. Is Etihad Airways to Blame?
In 2009, Lufthansa said it would oppose the “wild expansion” of Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways into the European market. At the time,…
Lufthansa’s New Tableware is “Timeless, modern” and So, So Boring – But at Least it’s Environmentally Friendly
Lufthansa has just unveiled a new set of tableware for all of the airline’s Economy Class passengers flying on intercontinental flights. ItR…
News Roundup – 14th June 2017. A Summary of Airline News from the Past Week
This week there was speculation that Emirates would bolster its own fleet and aircraft manufacturer Airbus’ fortunes by ordering a further 20 A3…
Lufthansa Goes iPad Crazy: 20,000 Cabin Crew Receive Tablet Devices in Major Digital Push
Lufthansa is pushing ahead with its digital transformation plan, codenamed ‘OPSession’, with the delivery of 20,000 iPad Mini’s to a…
News Roundup – 08th March 2017. A Summary of Airline News from the Past Week
Virgin Australia has announced that it won’t be starting a service between Perth and Abu Dhabi as was originally planned. Instead, the carrier …
Time for Etihad to Grow Up as it Gets in Bed with Lufthansa
Until recently, the Lufthansa Group’s approach to Etihad Airways of Abu Dhabi was downright hostility. Now, the two airlines are exploring new …
Time for Etihad to Grow Up as it Gets in Bed with Lufthansa
Until recently, the Lufthansa Group’s approach to Etihad Airways of Abu Dhabi was downright hostility. Now, the two airlines are exploring new …
What is a Codeshare Flight?
Etihad Airways and Lufthansa recently announced that they were going to put their differences to one side as they signed up for a mutual codeshare agr…
Is This for Real? Etihad and Lufthansa in Merger Talks
Is Etihad Airways of Abu Dhabi and Germany’s Lufthansa about to merge into one airline? For years, the German airline Lufthansa has attempted to…
