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Interview with Thorsten Dircks (in German):
https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehme ... 26780.html

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Brussels und Sun Express bedienen Eurowings-Langstrecke

Seit dem Sommer bedient Brussels mit aktuell drei (ab Dezember vier Maschinen) auch einen Teil der US-Ziele von Eurowings. Die restlichen sieben Jets vom Typ A330 werden von Sun Express Deutschland ab Düsseldorf und München operiert.
Auch die Verlagerung der 2015 in Köln/Bonn gestarteten Eurowings-Langstrecke nach unter anderem Düsseldorf ist für Experte Brützel sinnvoll: "Düsseldorf hat die mit Abstand beste Catchment-Area für touristische Verkehre aus Deutschland."
http://www.airliners.de/lufthansa-langstrecke/47723
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Brussels Airlines and Sun Express operate Eurowings long-haul

Since the summer Brussels Airlines has also operated part of the US targets of Eurowings with currently three (starting in December four machines). The remaining seven jets of the type A330 are operated by Sun Express Germany from Dusseldorf and Munich.
The relocation of the Eurowings long-haul to Düsseldorf, which started in Cologne / Bonn in 2015, among others, makes sense for expert Brützel: "Düsseldorf has by far the best catchment area for tourist traffic from Germany."

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Eurowings cabin crew threatened to strike in the short-term, despite advanced talks with management over a collective bargaining agreement.
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sn26567 wrote: 16 Nov 2018, 18:36 Eurowings cabin crew threatened to strike in the short-term, despite advanced talks with management over a collective bargaining agreement.
Ver.di calls on the respective cabin crew members to stop working this morning between 04:30 and 12:30 (UTC +1).

The airline was forced to cancel at least 28 flights this morning.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/luft ... f-airport/

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If Eurowings continues like this, I think Carsten will need 3 envelopes soon…

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Stij wrote: 20 Nov 2018, 08:57 If Eurowings continues like this, I think Carsten will need 3 envelopes soon…
Indeed. Spohr is playing his survival on the success of his pet project Eurowings. And things don't look good now. Heavy losses, angry staff. The only bright spot within Eurowings is Brussels Airlines, which should not be there, but within the network airlines. Even the short-haul routes of Brussels Airlines are now said to be profitable, which is far from being the case at Eurowings.
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sn26567 wrote: 20 Nov 2018, 09:31
Stij wrote: 20 Nov 2018, 08:57 If Eurowings continues like this, I think Carsten will need 3 envelopes soon…
Indeed. Spohr is playing his survival on the success of his pet project Eurowings. And things don't look good now. Heavy losses, angry staff. The only bright spot within Eurowings is Brussels Airlines, which should not be there, but within the network airlines. Even the short-haul routes of Brussels Airlines are now said to be profitable, which is far from being the case at Eurowings.
To be honest, I fully expect Eurowings to fail. It came too late after Easy Jet and Ryanair and the prices are far from competitive to those airlines.
I don't understand Spohr at all. They already had a 'low cost long haul' airline in Condor, why didn't they focus on that? ( I know they sold Condor, but LH and Condor still have close thighs )

From what I have heard is that Brussels Airlines is, indeed, quite profitable at the moment. Not making it a network airline like Swiss or Austrian is just plain stupid imo.

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@André
Re your yesterday article on EW crews new uniforms: I assume the COO Mr Knitter ( ;) !) has supervised that project personnally. :)

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What I am wondering... We are always talking and complaining about Carsten Spohr, but the man is supervised as well... Doesn't anyone within the LH Group board see the potential SN has? Can't Spohr be overruled and forced to do something with SN?

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sn26567 wrote: 20 Nov 2018, 09:31 The only bright spot within Eurowings is Brussels Airlines, which should not be there, but within the network airlines. Even the short-haul routes of Brussels Airlines are now said to be profitable, which is far from being the case at Eurowings.
Can you share figures to support your claim?

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Strange, those continuous referrals to Carsten Spohr as head of Eurowings.
If one reads the German press -like Handelsblatt and FAZ- one would almost dare to think that not Carsten Spohr, but a certain Thorsten Dirks is CEO of Eurowings. And that a certain Christina Foerster is CEO of Brussels Airlines.

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Passenger wrote: 22 Nov 2018, 09:27 Strange, those continuous referrals to Carsten Spohr as head of Eurowings.
If one reads the German press -like Handelsblatt and FAZ- one would almost dare to think that not Carsten Spohr, but a certain Thorsten Dirks is CEO of Eurowings. And that a certain Christina Foerster is CEO of Brussels Airlines.
Fine, but whose strategy is being executed...

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Stij wrote: 22 Nov 2018, 11:39
Passenger wrote: 22 Nov 2018, 09:27 Strange, those continuous referrals to Carsten Spohr as head of Eurowings.
If one reads the German press -like Handelsblatt and FAZ- one would almost dare to think that not Carsten Spohr, but a certain Thorsten Dirks is CEO of Eurowings. And that a certain Christina Foerster is CEO of Brussels Airlines.
Fine, but whose strategy is being executed...
The strategy from the Executive Board. And Thorsten Dirks is one of the five Members of that Executive Board.

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Passenger wrote: 22 Nov 2018, 11:59 The strategy from the Executive Board. And Thorsten Dirks is one of the five Members of that Executive Board.
If I'm not mistaken he only started at Eurowings on April 1st 2017 as in the 1st quarter of 2017 he was still with Telefonica.
I beleive the strategy the Eurowings strategy is older than 18 months, so he executes a strategy that was decided before he was there.
Of course, by accepting the job, he accepted the strategy.

This being said, Spohr was, is and will be the CEO of the LH group and therefore the end-responsable, spiritual father, ambassador and face of the Eurowings strategy.

BTW Published 40min ago: http://www.manager-magazin.de/premium/d ... 0160904379
Can't read the whole article, but...
- CFO is going
- Confidence between Dirks and Spohr is gone, especially Dirks is frustrated.
- Spohr doesn't have many friends on the board
- Eurowings was Spohrs main project
- Lufthansa needs a new CEO
- Dirks could gone quickly as well...

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The board of directors denies that there are problems

https://www.handelsblatt.com/dpa/wirtsc ... lL4fXu-ap5

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Boeing767copilot wrote: 22 Nov 2018, 15:19 The board of directors denies that there are problems

https://www.handelsblatt.com/dpa/wirtsc ... lL4fXu-ap5
There is no smoke without fire...
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sn26567 wrote: 22 Nov 2018, 15:33
Boeing767copilot wrote: 22 Nov 2018, 15:19 The board of directors denies that there are problems

https://www.handelsblatt.com/dpa/wirtsc ... lL4fXu-ap5
There is no smoke without fire...
humm...waiting fire ! Any fire will be preferable to those moments when we perceive that something is preparing without knowing very well under what wind

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Looking at the Air Belgium ACMI flights news, and in view of the numerous SN flights operated by EW aircraft, I was wondering how busy their l/h fleet currently is.

On FR24 data, I found the following:

The 7 A332s are quite busy (Bangkok, Varadero; Cancun, Punta Cana..), although they do have each 1 or 2 days off per week; normal since they do long hours.

The OO ones (SFB, SFJ, SCW, SCX), besides their SN duties (11 return last week by SFJ and SCW) performed a total of 11 return flights during the last week (essentially JFK, Miami and Fort Meyers).

This slack holiday business is probably due to the low season, but they obviously have ample capacity.

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At the CAPA summit, AIRBORNE Consulting managing partner Gerald Wissel said EUR 490 million in losses and extraordinary costs were required for to integration of airberlin by European carriers including Eurowings and easyJet. Airlines

And how much for the integration of Brussels Airlines into Eurowings?

Carsten Spohr gladly spends hundreds of millions euros for airberlin, but will not spend one cent on SN...
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sn26567 wrote: 27 Nov 2018, 12:44 At the CAPA summit, AIRBORNE Consulting managing partner Gerald Wissel said EUR 490 million in losses and extraordinary costs were required for to integration of airberlin by European carriers including Eurowings and easyJet. Airlines

And how much for the integration of Brussels Airlines into Eurowings?

Carsten Spohr gladly spends hundreds of millions euros for airberlin, but will not spend one cent on SN...
Seeing that SN is integrating into EW, he’s spending it on SN too

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