The Franco-German aerospace group EADS soared back into the black and exceeded expectations on Tuesday by posting a 2008 net profit of âŹ1.572 billion ($1.987 billion).
The city of Potsdam in Brandenburg has recommended the purchase of three mini "gyrocopters" for police surveillance use, according to documents obtained by daily <i>Der Tagesspiegel</i> on Tuesday.
German rocket scientist Konrad Dannenberg, who worked on the Nazi V-2 rocket before helping NASA to develop the first moon rockets, has died at the age of 96 in Huntsville, Alabama, daily <i>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</i> reported on Wednesday.
The head of the German flag carrier Lufthansa, Wolfgang Mayrhuber, said on Thursday that he saw no reason to change the purchase price for Austrian Airlines (AUA) despite EU Commission questions.
Germany is considering financial aid for clients of aerospace giant Airbus struggling to raise capital from banks, a junior minister told AFP on Tuesday.
In October, the German government poured cold water on a European Commission plan to allow controversial ânakedâ scanners to increase security at airports. Now the EU has six of the âŹ120,000-machines that it may be trying to sell, news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported on Tuesday.
Three people died on Wednesday evening in the German state of Lower Saxony when the single-engine airplane they were in crashed in a wooded area near a Klausheide airfield.
The Airbus A400 military transport plane is too heavy and does not deliver on performance, the <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> newspaper reported on Monday.
Some 270 vacationers got an unexpected trip extension when they were forced to wait for more than two days in Mexico for their return flight to Frankfurt as their Condor airline plane was repaired, the company confirmed late on Tuesday.
Germany's leading airline Lufthansa has been in talks with its troubled Scandinavian counterpart SAS, a company executive told Danish media Friday, rekindling speculation about a planned acquisition.
There is at least one air traffic collision alarm per day in the skies over Germany, a study from the Institute of Railway Systems Engineering and Traffic Safety (IfEV) in Braunschweig revealed on Tuesday.
German airline Lufthansa will have to raise its offer for Austrian Airlines if it wants to secure more than 75 percent of the ailing Austrian flag carrier, a shareholder group said Thursday.
A German plan to begin lab tests of 'naked' security scanners provoked howls of protest over privacy Saturday, as the government reversed its earlier rejection of the devices.
German flag carrier Lufthansa will found its own Italian airline early next year, even as it courts Italy's bankrupt Alitalia. The new carrier will have its hub in Milan and fly to several major European cities.
Staff at three Airbus plants in Germany staged wildcat strikes Thursday over plans by the European jet maker to spin off the factories into a new subsidiary, a company spokesman said.
A fire at an empty warehouse near Berlinâs Tegel airport on Thursday morning caused chaos with air traffic, forcing authorities to divert flights due to large clouds of smoke that made landing difficult.
Austrian Airlines will be sold to German carrier Lufthansa, the Austrian state holding company OeIAG, which has a 41.6-percent stake in the loss-making airline, announced Thursday evening.
Kurt Volker, the US ambassador to NATO, on Tuesday suggested Germany could use a Boeing military transport plane to solve its heavy lift needs instead of the troubled A400M programme.
