Lufthansa has unveiled a modified version of its new livery on Thursday. The German flag carrier showed off its new brand design during an event at Frankfurt and Munich Airport in February this year. It removed the iconic yellow circle, known as the ‘fried egg’, from the horizontal stabilizer and changed the blue tone to a…
Lufthansa Group has placed orders for 16 additional aircraft. The order consists of four Boeing 777 and twelve Airbus A320 (neo & ceo). Subsidiary Swiss will receive two new Boeing 777-300ER in early 2020, which will be used to expand the airline’s route Network. Two freighter versions of the 777 are due to join Lufthansa…
Austrian flag-carrier Austrian Airlines is introducing a new livery – after wearing the current one for just three years. A Boeing 777-200 (OE-LPF) will be the first aircraft to receive the new paint scheme. It will be unveiled in Vienna in May this year. The airline says it will take seven years to repaint all…
Two small private aircraft have collided while on approach to Schwäbisch Hall Airport in southern Germany. At least two fatalities are reported after an ultra-light and a propeller aircraft collided with each other, six kilometers from the airport. “They were approaching the runway, I can not say more at this point in time“, says a…
Major airport strike action across Germany forces airlines to cancel almost 1000 flights on Tuesday. Verdi (German United Services Trade Union) has called for a 24-hour strike at four German airports, Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne and Bremen, which will take place on Tuesday, April 10th. Reason for this ‘warning strike’ are pay disputes. Frankfurt Airport issued…
American Airlines has confirmed an order for 47 Boeing 787 Dreamliners. The announced order for 47 Boeing Dreamliners (plus another 28 options) consists of 22 787-8 and 25 787-9 (powered by General Electric GEnx-1B engines), which the airline will use to replace its aging Boeing 767-300 and Airbus A330 fleet, as well as older 777-200.…
The Portuguese charter airline Hi Fly will acquire two used Airbus A380s. Both superjumbos are currently stored at Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees Airport in southern France, after Singapore Airlines had decided not to extend the leasing contract with DS Aviation. At the moment, the planes are registered as 9V-SKA (MSN003) and 9V-SKB (MSN005) and painted in white.…
A Drunk TAP Air Portugal pilot has been arrested by police at Stuttgart Airport. More than 100 Passengers are stranded at Stuttgart Airport in Germany, after the drunken co-pilot was detained shortly before flight #TP523 was due to take off, heading to Lisbon Airport on Friday evening. An airport employee noticed him staggering and smelling…
Eurowings has received its first Airbus A340-300. The German low-cost carrier started testing the commercial capabilities of the A340-300 on regular scheduled short haul flights within Europe on Tuesday. OO-SCW, its first aircraft of this type, is operated by Lufthansa Group affiliate Brussels Airlines. Since being delivered in 2000, it was part of the Lufthansa…
A 16 year old passenger got escorted off a Silver Airways flight by police… for taking pictures. The ‘incident’ occurred earlier this month, on March 7th, when the Passenger was about to fly on board the small American regional airline from Fort Myers to Orlando and then taking a connecting flight to New York Newark with…
Lufthansa Group has presented its best ever financial results on Thursday. The airline’s adjusted EBIT profit jumped around 70 percent to almost 3 billion Euro. Total Lufthansa Group revenues in 2017 amounted to 35.6 billion Euro, an around 12 percent increase on 2016. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr says: “Our endeavors of the past few years…
A Turkish private jet with 11 people on board has crashed in Iran on Sunday. It was reportedly flying from Sharjah, UAE to Istanbul, when it crashed into Mount Helen in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, southwest Iran, at 18:45 local time. A lower flying altitude was requested by the pilots, shortly before the airplane crashed,…