Lufthansa

Global airports hit by computer problems

Airports around the world suffered major technical problems Thursday connected to a temporary failure of a system for checking in passengers and luggage.

5 years, 12 months ago

Lufthansa cancels 1,700 flights due to pilots' strike

Lufthansa is cancelling around 1,700 flights over the next two days due to a fresh strike by pilots in a long-running dispute about pay.

6 years, 10 months ago

Lufthansa Pilot Strike Grounds Hundreds of Flights for Second Day

The walkout has cost the German airline about $21 million over two days, a board member said.

6 years, 10 months ago

Lufthansa cancels 876 flights on Wednesday due to pilots' strike

Lufthansa said it was seeking a temporary injunction on Tuesday to avert a strike after cancelling nearly a third of its flights on Wednesday due to a planned 24-hour work stoppage then by its pilots.

6 years, 10 months ago

Lufthansa board approves Brussels Airlines takeover

Lufthansa's supervisory board has approved plans to buy the 55 percent of Brussels Airlines the German carrier does not own as part of a plan to expand its low-cost airline Eurowings through acquisitions.

6 years, 12 months ago

Lufthansa, Air Berlin Cut Flights on German Airport Strike

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air Berlin Plc and other airlines canceled hundreds of flights in Germany on Wednesday as a strike by public-services workers at airports hobbled operations in Frankfurt, Munich and Cologne.

7 years, 5 months ago

Lufthansa Cancels One Third of Flights as Strike Moves Into Fifth Day

Germany’s Lufthansa AG canceled about one third of scheduled flights on Wednesday and Thursday, after two German courts rejected its request to stop a strike by its cabin crew that is continuing for a fifth day.

7 years, 10 months ago

Lufthansa Pilots Strike for Second Day, 1 000 Flights Cancelled

Pilots at German airline Lufthansa started a second day of strikes on Wednesday, grounding around 1,000 flights and affecting 140,000 passengers, and said more strikes would come if management did not improve their offer in a row over cost cutting.

8 years ago

Lufthansa Pilots Set Date for New Strike

Pilots at German airline Lufthansa are due to walk out on Tuesday after wage and retirement talks collapsed last week. The pilots 13th strike in 18 months will affect mainly long-haul and cargo flights.

8 years ago

Germanwings Crash: French Prosecutors Open New Probe

French prosecutors have announced a preliminary investigation into whether manslaughter charges should be brought over the Germanwings plane crash.

8 years, 3 months ago

France: Lubitz Tried Controlled Descent on Previous Flight

The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 4525 tried a controlled descent on the previous flight that morning to Barcelona before the plane crashed into a mountainside in March on its way back to Germany, French air accident investigators said in a new report released Wednesday.

8 years, 4 months ago

Prosecutor Denies Reports of Cell Phone Video from Inside Germanwings Crash Plane

he French prosecutor leading an investigation into the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 insisted Wednesday that he was not aware of any video footage from on board the plane.

8 years, 5 months ago

Germanwings Co-Pilot Had Been Treated for ‘Suicidal Tendencies,’ Authorities Say

The co-pilot of the Germanwings jetliner that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday had been treated for “suicidal tendencies” before receiving his pilot’s license, the office of the German prosecutor in Düsseldorf said Monday.

8 years, 6 months ago

Germanwings Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Airbus Jet, French Prosecutor Says

The chief Marseille prosecutor handling the investigation into the crash of a Germanwings jetliner said on Thursday that evidence from the cockpit voice recorder indicated that the co-pilot had deliberately locked the captain out of the cockpit and steered the plane into its fatal descent.

8 years, 6 months ago

Germanwings Plane Crashes in South France, 150 Feared Dead

A plane carrying at least 150 people crashed in southern France on Tuesday en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, the French civil aviation authority said.

8 years, 6 months ago