Shares in Lufthansa soared Tuesday despite a dip in second quarter profits, as strong passenger numbers helped keep the German airline giant's full-year targets on track.
It was a striking example of how no risks are taken when it comes to airport security in the 21st century. a mishap involving a cosmetics bag led to 30,000 passengers being stranded in Munich - many of whom have been left out of pocket.
German airline giant Lufthansa said it will cancel "more than 800" flights on Tuesday as public sector workers walk out on strike for more pay, hobbling major airports like
Frankfurt.
In light of public service union Ver.di planning to strike at the airports in Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne and Bremen on Tuesday, travellers have been warned of long waiting times and flight cancellations.
Judges in Germany’s Federal Court of Justice started hearing a case on Tuesday which concerns whether airlines should be allowed to keep your cash if you cancel a booking.
The state company behind Berlin’s long-delayed international airport needs a further €770 million in order to finish the job, broadcaster RBB reported on Friday.
German airline giant Lufthansa said Wednesday it had carried 130 million passengers in 2017, nosing ahead of budget Irish carrier Ryanair to become Europe's largest airline by passenger numbers.
German airline group Lufthansa said Monday it plans to hire more than 8,000 people in 2018, the latest step in a relentless push for growth at one of Europe's largest carriers.
Germany's competition watchdog on
Thursday rubbished Lufthansa's claim that recent price hikes on domestic routes were purely down to automated booking software, saying companies shouldn't "hide behind algorithms".
The EU approved Tuesday the purchase of bankrupt carrier Air Berlin's operations at the German capital's Tegel Airport by British low-cost carrier easyJet.
German aviation giant Lufthansa has offered concessions to encourage the European Commission to green-light its planned purchase of parts of bankrupt Air Berlin, the Brussels authority told AFP.
The British Chancellor on Wednesday raised the possibility that a 'no deal' Brexit scenario could ground flights between the UK and other European countries.
The new spin doctor for Berlin’s embarrassingly delayed new airport found honesty doesn’t pay in his business on Monday, after just three months in the job.
Germany will step up surprise tests for airline pilots to detect medications and drugs nearly a year after a Germanwings co-pilot suffering from depression deliberately crashed his plane, the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Saturday.
In 2014 over 300 laser attacks on planes and helicopters were reported. The attacks put aircraft at risk at the most vulnerable points in a flight - take-off and landing.
Twice authorities have intercepted drones being used to deliver contraband into prisons, leaving German states are planning new ways of keeping criminal activity away from criminals. But is the law behind the curve on this new technology?
His name is most associated outside Germany with the Nazi air force that laid waste to European cities. But Hugo Junkers, scion of a wealthy landed family turned socialist pacifist, was one of the great engineers of his day who lost everything to Hitler's dictatorship.
Medicine deliveries to a pharmacy on a North Sea island will be made by a drone, Deutsche Post announced on Wednesday, in the first project of its kind.
German airline Lufthansa said on Monday that it is suspending flights to the Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil "until further notice", following a review of security in Iraq.
