Lufthansa Group informs works councils about personnel situation : 22,000 jobs threatened
Prospective of personnel surplus at Lufthansa Group companies totals 22,000 full-time positions, half of them in Germany
Reduction of overcapacities due to redundancies...
[Pictures] A safe journey restarts at Brussels Airport with 4,000 passengers today and more than 1 million passengers in July and August
Brussels Airport from today will be able to welcome more passengers now that non-essential travel is allowed again in Europe. The passenger can expect...
Brussels Airport can handle 90% of the flights after the demise of Swissport
Ninety percent of all flights at Brussels Airport can be handled, the operator of the national airport said on Thursday. Monday, 15 June, is...
How Brussels Airlines gets ready for takeoff after 12 weeks of hibernation
Aircraft are not made to stand still. And the same goes for staff, who have missed their jobs dearly. On Monday, Brussels Airlines will...
Difficult negotiations between Belgian Government and Lufthansa on Brussels Airlines blocked by sanctions issue
The negotiations between Lufthansa Group and the Belgian federal government on state aid for Brussels Airlines continue to be difficult, financial newspapers De Tijd...
22,000 jobs threatened at Lufthansa Group by coronavirus crisis
The German airline group Lufthansa has announced a 16% reduction in its workforce after an unprecedented net loss of 2.1 billion euros in the...
Austria wants to set minimum price of 40 euros for plane tickets
The Austrian government announced on 9 June that it wanted to impose a minimum price of € 40 for airline tickets, a measure that...
Eurowings expands frequencies in reaction to sharply rising demand
Significant expansion of frequencies for business travellers and holidaymakers from Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Cologne/Bonn
After lifting the worldwide travel warning: customer interest...
Air Dolomiti returns to fly to Frankfurt and Munich
After more than two months of lockdown, connections between Italian cities and German hubs resume.
Italian airports reopen and Air Dolomiti turns on the engines.The...
Austrian Airlines to get 600 million euro rescue package from Austrian Government and Lufthansa
According to newspaper Der Standard and other Austrian media, an agreement has been reached on a 600 million euros rescue package for Austrian Airlines...
Brussels Airport ground handler Swissport Belgium files for bankruptcy – nearly 1,500 jobs at stake
This morning, the management of Swissport Belgium (Swissport Belgium SA/NV and Swissport Belgium Cleaning SA/NV) filed for bankruptcy, the ground handler said in a...
Coronavirus global response: EU Humanitarian Air Bridge flights to the Democratic Republic of Congo
As announced in our plane-spotting forum, the EU Humanitarian Air Bridge is operating three flights to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), carrying on...
The list of destinations relaunched by Brussels Airlines, with starting date and frequency
On 25 May, Brussels Airlines announced that it would relaunch 59 destinations between 15 June and 31 August.Jim Liu, of Routesonline, checked the booking...
Brussels Airport, Brussels Airlines and TUI fly Belgium are ready to safely resume air travel
Air traffic at Brussels Airport will resume as of 15 June, Brussels Airport CEO Arnaud Feist proudly explained to the many journalists that gathered...
Brussels Airlines prepares to start flights on 15 June with set of sanitary measures
Brussels Airlines is getting ready to welcome passengers and staff again as from 15 June. Next to retraining its cockpit and cabin crew to...
Lufthansa Group airlines significantly expand flight schedule until September
90 percent of short and medium-haul routes back on offer by September
70 percent of long-haul destinations back on offer by September
Further...
Sunweb Group will start with sunshine holidays from 15 June
As of June 15, tour operator Sunweb Group will again start offering sun vacations in which the safety of travellers is the top priority.
That...
Brussels Airlines explains why it will no longer fly to Conakry and Ouagadougou
A 100% subsidiary of the German carrier Lufthansa since the end of 2016, the Belgian airline was struggling to make profits since it was...
Coronavirus crisis leads to high quarterly loss of Austrian Airlines: -136 million euros
• Revenue decline of 24 percent in the first quarter of 2020
• Strong year-on-year drop in passenger volume of 27 percent
• Adjusted EBIT down...
SWISS reports first-quarter operating loss of CHF 84.1 million
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic and its unprecedented impact on the air transport sector, SWISS incurred an operating loss of CHF 84.1...