Germany’s dominant airline group is preparing for fuel shortages in the coming months, its finance chief warns, underlining how severely European air travel may be disrupted if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
Germany's leading airline has seen three different worker strikes in the past week, resulting in the cancellation of hundreds of flights each day. We asked passengers about their experiences – some say they're calling it quits.
Germany's biggest airline has been hit by back to back to back workers' strikes this week, in addition to facing a looming jet fuel shortage. Now its announced the closure of its regionally-focused subsidiary.
After pilots at three of Lufthansa's airlines walked off the job on Monday and Tuesday, the union is calling for another strike on Thursday and Friday. The action extends major disruptions in air travel in Germany.
Pilots at Lufthansa were already on a two-day strike when the company's cabin crew workers announced another two-strike to follow. Why is Germany's biggest airline seeing so many strikes, and where are travellers affected?
Flights to and from Germany haven't been severely impacted by jet fuel supply issues yet, but that could change quickly if the war in the Middle East continues. We asked airlines what passengers can expect.
Lufthansa and union representatives sought a breakthrough on Thursday in talks on issues including pay and retirement benefits. Pilots have already delivered a clear mandate in favour of industrial action.
German airline Lufthansa said
Wednesday it had reduced its net loss for the first quarter, as pent-up demand for travel is expected to further boost its bottom line in the upcoming summer months.
The aviation giant has paid back a German government bailout it says saved 100,000 jobs at the height of the first Covid wave in 2020. But 3,000 more job cuts are still planned.
German airline Lufthansa said Friday it
was taking "extraordinary measures" to meet surging bookings for the Spanish
holiday island of Mallorca, deploying a jumbo jet to ferry passengers from
Frankfurt.
Airline companies said flights between Germany
and Russia had resumed Wednesday evening, after each country blocked the
other's incoming flights as part of the fall-out from tensions over Belarus.
German airline Lufthansa said it delayed the departure of a flight from Minsk to Frankfurt on Monday after it received a
"security warning", one day after a forced landing over Belarus.
Germany's foreign minister on Wednesday urged
his countrymen to think twice about rushing to Mallorca over the Easter holidays after the sun-soaked Spanish island was taken off the coronavirus risk list.
German airline Lufthansa said Wednesday it had
flown 80 tonnes of fruits and vegetables to Britain after other links were cut over fears of a virus variant detected in the UK.
German airline Lufthansa said Wednesday it has
reached a deal with a union that heads off any forced redundancies of pilots
to March 2022, as the aviation giant struggles to stay solvent in the pandemic.
German giant Lufthansa has warned that
30,000 jobs are under threat as it scaled down its winter schedule to levels
not seen since the 1970s as demand for travel collapses because of the
coronavirus pandemic.
Lufthansa said Monday it will
slash more jobs on top of 22,000 previously announced cuts, as well as put
more planes out of service, because it is currently losing some €500 million a month.
Tourism giant TUI and the German government agreed on Wednesday to a second massive aid package, in a sign of how the effects of the coronavirus pandemic are still battering the industry.
German airline giant Lufthansa said
Thursday it made a net loss reaching €1.5 billion in the
second quarter as the coronavirus pandemic slammed the brakes on travel.
The EU's top competition authority approved the massive bailout of Lufthansa by the German government on Thursday, saving the airline from bankruptcy, but under conditions.
Coronavirus-stricken carriers
Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines will close the German branch of their
SunExpress joint venture, placing 1,200 jobs under threat, the company said
Tuesday.
German airline Lufthansa said Thursday that it would have to slash 22,000 full-time jobs as it predicts a muted recovery
in demand for travel following the coronavirus pandemic.
