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A Lufthansa flight to Chicago was forced to return to Frankfurt on Thursday after an unusual odour was smelled in the cabin, the German airline said on Thursday. The Boeing 747 carrying 320 passengers and 19 crew members turned around due to an "unidentifiable electrical odour," a company statement said. Lufthansa said there was no smoke on board at any time and that the cause of the smell was still being investigated by technicians. The aircraft landed "normally" in Frankfurt. The passengers were to continue their journey on Thursday evening on a replacement aircraft. Germany's Bild newspaper...
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The long-running attempt by Lufthansa to acquire a stake in the state-owned Italian airline Ita took another possible step forward on Tuesday, as the parties involved offered the European Commission further concessions. Brussels had been offered "additions" in line with the commission's demands, the Italian Finance Ministry said, without providing any details. Lufthansa also refused to provide details about the apparent concessions. Lufthansa wants initially to buy a 41% stake in the state-owned airline Ita Airways, formerly Alitalia. In return, Ita is to receive €325 million ($350 million) in...
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German flagship airline Lufthansa is cutting costs after labour strikes in the first quarter, with measures including hiring fewer staff in administration. At the presentation of the final quarterly figures for this year in Frankfurt, chief executive Carsten Spohr said that savings had to be made in all areas that did not directly affect customers. In principle, the company had resolved to manage with 20% fewer managers and employees in the administrative areas compared to 2019. The high strike costs would also have to be recouped through increased productivity, Spohr said. Tickets for the gro...
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German national carrier Lufthansa is cutting costs after labour strikes in the first quarter. When presenting its final quarterly figures in Frankfurt on Tuesday, the MDax-listed company announced that its core brand Lufthansa intends to reduce operating costs, stop new projects and review administrative hiring. Group-wide, chief executive Carsten Spohr expects flight capacity for 2024 to be only 92% of the level seen before the Covid-19 crisis. However, bookings for the summer half-year are 16% higher than a year ago. Spohr had already slashed his profit forecast for 2024 in mid-April due to ...
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Cabin crew at German airline Lufthansa on Wednesday voted to accept a proposed collective bargaining deal that will run through the end of 2026. Members of the UFO flight attendants' union approved the agreement with 80.45% of the vote, the union said on Wednesday. The deal was struck two weeks ago between UFO union leaders and Lufthansa, but needed to be approved by the union's rank-and-file before taking effect. The wage dispute with cabin crew was one of several labour fights at Lufthansa earlier this year that led to repeated strikes and major disruptions. Before striking the deal, cabin c...
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German airline Lufthansa and its subsidiaries Swiss and Austrian Airlines announced the temporary suspension of all flights to Israel due to the current conflict in the Middle East. Four flights scheduled between now and 7 am (0500GMT) on Saturday morning have been cancelled so far, a Lufthansa spokesman told dpa on Friday. According to US media reports, at least one Israeli missile struck a target in Iran. There were initially no reports of damage. Iran had attacked Israel last weekend with hundreds of drones and missiles in retaliation for a suspected Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy co...
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German flagship airline Lufthansa announced on Monday that it has slashed down the company's outlook for fiscal 2024 due to a series of strikes by different employee groups within the Group and by employees at system partners, impacting earnings by €350 million ($37 million). For the current fiscal year, the company now expects an adjusted EBIT of €2.2 billion compared to €2.68 billion in the previous year. On a preliminary basis, the company expects an adjusted EBIT loss of €849 million in the first quarter of 2024 compared to last year's loss of €273 million. Currently, the company's stock i...
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German carrier Lufthansa has made further concessions to the European Commission in relation to its planned purchase of a large minority stake in Italian airline ITA Airways, a commission spokeswoman said in Brussels on Monday. "We can confirm that the parties have submitted commitments aimed at addressing the preliminary competition concerns arising from the proposed transaction. We will now carefully assess them," the spokeswoman said. A Lufthansa spokesman referred to a "comprehensive, constructive solution" to address the commission's concerns about the routes in question and the situation...
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Lufthansa has extended the suspension of planned flights to and from Tehran until Thursday next week due to security concerns, the German flagship carrier said early on Friday. "Due to the current situation, Lufthansa is suspending its flights to and from Tehran up to and including Thursday, April 18, after careful evaluation," a company spokesperson said on Friday afternoon. The safety of passengers and crews is always the top priority, the statement said. Lufthansa does not rely solely on government assessments, but evaluates the current security situation itself and then makes its own decis...
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Lufthansa's wage negotiations for cabin crew are entering the next round, after the German flagship carrier reached an agreement in negotiations with ground staff. The trade union for flight attendants, UFO, refrained from another strike over Easter. It is demanding 15% more pay for the approximately 18,000 flight attendants at Lufthansa as well as for their 1,000 colleagues at the regional subsidiary Cityline for a contract term of 18 months. The union also wants an inflation adjustment bonus of €3,000 ($3,250) and higher bonuses. According to the union, negotiations will take place this Thur...
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