Lufthansa becomes Europe’s first Skytrax-certified five Star airline The German flag-carrier received the five star quality certification on Monday. It is the 10th airline worldwide and the first one outside of Asia to receive this rating from British aviation consulting specialist Skytrax. Skytrax has already been awarding the five star rating to Lufthansa’s First Class for…
Racing star Niki Lauda wants to bid again for Air Berlin’s Niki, together with Thomas Cook, if the takeover by Lufthansa Group fails. After Air Berlin filed for insolvency in August 2017, many airlines and investors (including Lufthansa, Ryanair, easyJet and Niki Lauda/Thomas Cook) were interested in acquiring parts of the now-gone German airline and its…
An AirAsia Airbus A320 skidded off runway 15 at Subang Airport, Malaysia during a training flight The Airbus A320-216 with registration 9M-AHM was undergoing a training session, when it suffered a runway excursion at Subang’s Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (SZB) in Malaysia. Four crew members and no passengers were on board the aircraft, the…
A British Airways Airbus A319 has collided with a tug at Glasow Airport on Friday evening. The aircraft with registration G-DBCH was pushing back from its gate when it hit an airport tug in icy conditions. The incident occurred at around 20:45pm local time. Emergency services quickly responded to the incident and all flight and…
Lufthansa is extending its Boeing 747-400 flights between Frankfurt and Berlin Tegel. The German flag-carrier started using the Boeing 747 on some flights from Frankfurt to Berlin and back on November 1st, due to the increased demand, caused by the closure of Air Berlin. The 747 flights on this route were due to end on…
The airfield at Hamburg airport is closed off due to trespassers At 8:30pm local time, Breaking Flight News first reported that Hamburg airport is closed off, it was later reported that there are unauthorized people running on the airfield. UPDATE 21:19: The situation is still going on, all flights are holding or diverting to nearby airports…
Lufthansa owned low-cost carrier Eurowings wants to triple its long-haul fleet in 2018 In a press release Eurowings said, that it will have a total long-haul fleet of 21 aircraft at the end of 2018. The new airplanes will include Airbus A330-200/-300 and A340-300 types. Some of them will be operated by Belgian flag-carrier Brussels…
Germany’s second largest airline ‘Air Berlin’ has ended flight operations on October 27th. What will become of aircraft, routes and employees now? This Article will inform you about everything there is to know. Well, first of all, the Air Berlin brand is not entirely gone yet. Its Austria-registered subsidiary airline Niki is still operating flights…
Eurowings Europe employees are warning about joining the airline due to low wages and bad working conditions ‘below Ryanair level’. An open letter by Eurowings employees said: “Lufthansa used to stand for reliability, fairness, social responsibility and justice, but this has changed with the foundation of Eurowings Europe”. They say most people working for Eurowings Europe…
Air Berlin’s subsidiary airline ‘Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter’ (LGW) will operate Bombardier Dash flights under Eurowings’ flight numbers to European destinations (including London Heathrow and Paris CDG) LGW used to operate flights for its insolvent parent company Air Berlin, but Air Berlin has ended operations under its own callsign on October 27th. The regional carrier LGW has…
British low-cost carrier easyJet wants to take over 25 Air Berlin aircraft Berlin’s Tegel airport has lost almost half of it’s daily flights, since the last flight of insolvent German airline Air Berlin arrived there on Friday, October 27th at 11:45pm. But now there is new hope for the main airport of Germany’s capital. British…
