Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian Airlines customer service now also available via Messenger App
Chatbots support passengers in the event of irregularities in flight operations, among other thingsLufthansa Group passengers often have similar questions: Is my flight on...
Ryanair deploys GlobalBeacon, thus surpassing safety standards for flight tracking
Ryanair today (8 May) announced the deployment of GlobalBeacon, a live flight monitoring platform that combines FlightAware’s data processing capabilities and web-interface with global...
Lufthansa Group focuses on high-quality, responsible growth at its Annual General Meeting
Company looks back on economically successful year at Annual General Meeting
Shareholders to again participate in success with 80 cent dividend"Lufthansa Group has...
Finnair traffic performance in April 2019: +14.8%
The number of passengers carried in April increased by 14.8% year-on-year while capacity growth remains strongIn April. Finnair carried 1.227.400 passengers. 14.8% more than...
FlightStats confirms Alitalia as the world’s most punctual airline for the first four months of 2019
With 89 per cent of flights landed on schedule, Alitalia has confirmed itself as the most punctual airline in the world in the first...
Air New Zealand crew disallows passenger as she refuses to watch the safety video
On 7 May, Air New Zealand crew and all passengers but one were ready for domestic flight NZ424 between Wellington and Auckland. The passenger,...
Qantas brings Dreamliner to San Francisco and farewell the Queen of the Skies
Qantas has announced Sydney-San Francisco as the next route for its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
Qantas brings Dreamliner to San Francisco and farewell the Queen...
SunExpress expands Turkish route network from Berlin: Now to Dalaman and Ankara
The German-Turkish holiday airline SunExpress now flies once a week to Dalaman by the Turkish Aegean Sea. Ankara will also be added as a...
Lufthansa wants to take over German holiday airline Condor from the Thomas Cook Group
Lufthansa is preparing an offer for German holiday airline Condor, said Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr during the annual shareholders' meeting on Tuesday morning. The...
Airbus delivers first A321LR to Canada’s Air Transat
Air Transat, a Canadian leisure and holiday travel airline, took delivery of its first Airbus A321LR aircraft. The A321LR is one of 15 the...
First Lion Air Airbus A330neo rolls-out of Airbus paint shop
The first A330neo for Lion Air Group has rolled out of the Airbus paint shop in Toulouse, France, featuring the airline’s distinctive livery. The...
Former pilot on the Aeroflot crash: “The design of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 leaves much to be desired”
More and more questions are being raised on the airworthiness of the Sukhoi Superjet 100-95B type. On 5 May, an Aeroflot SSJ (RA-89098) crashed...
Norwegian reports passenger growth and improved on-time performance in April
Norwegian carried more than 3.1 million passengers in April, an increase of three percent compared to the same month previous year. The figures for...
Severe turbulence in British Airways Boeing 777 injures 14 passengers
On 6 May, a British Airways Boeing 777-200 (G-VIIR) operating flight BA2167 from London London Gatwick to Tampa, U.S. encountered severe turbulence during the...
Lufthansa Supervisory Board appoints Executive Board member and Eurowings CEO Thorsten Dirks for three more years
Eurowings CEO continues turnaround
In today’s meeting, the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG decided ahead of schedule to extend the contract with Thorsten Dirks...
First KLM flight departs for Wroc?aw
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines operated its first flight to the Polish city of Wroc?aw today on Monday, 6 May 2019. Wroc?aw is the fourth...
Norwegian reveals soaring demand for new Dublin-Hamilton flights with 90% seats filled in first month
Norwegian today reveals that it has recorded soaring demand for its brand-new flights between Dublin and Toronto’s Hamilton Airport.On 31 March, Norwegian commenced services...
Eurowings opens new base in Pristina (Kosovo)
Airline deploys an Airbus A319 in Kosovo's capital as of 19 June
New connections also from Basel and Geneva to Pristina
Frequencies increased...
Air Europa to fly to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala in codeshare with Copa Airlines
Air Europa will consolidate its presence in Central America by inaugurating its new route to Panama in June, and, at the same time, will...
Law firm files lawsuits on behalf of the family of a humanitarian Italian couple that died in the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crash
Two federal wrongful death lawsuits were filed on May 2 in Chicago, IL by the law firm Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, along with co-counsel...