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The Lufthansa Group is slashing its financial forecast after a series of strikes affected its operations and warned rising tensions in the Middle East could further affect its bottom line.

Flights between Europe and Asia could see significant delays and longer journey times, following the first direct attack from Iran on Israel on Saturday night.

Lufthansa has canceled flights to and from Iran as tensions escalate in the region. However, Skift has discovered that the cancellations aren’t universal, even within the same airline group.

Whether you’re a frequent first class flyer, or a trip at the front of the plane is still firmly on your bucket list, a luxury flight is the best start to a trip.

Successful arbitration: new collective agreement for ground staff, including substantial wage increase, inflation compensation, holiday pay supplement, package for trainees 

Travel chaos is on the horizon for Germany as airport and rail workers there have announced a new round of walk-outs.

Germany will face travel chaos again this week as many of its train and airport workers are set to stage walkouts.

Flights and trains across Germany will be severely disrupted this week due to strikes.

Current members Christina Foerster, Harry Hohmeister, Detlef Kayser to leave on June 30, 2024, Remco Steenbergen to leave on May 7, 2024. Grazia Vittadini and Dieter Vranckx newly appointed. Michael Niggemann to additionally serve as interim CFO.

Lufthansa has been forced to scrap hundreds of flights amid a 27-hour labor strike at five airports across Germany.

A union has called on Lufthansa's ground staff to walk off the job for a day on Wednesday in a pay dispute, the latest of several transport strikes in Germany.

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Changes are coming to business class seating for the 747-8 aircraft operated by German flag carrier Lufthansa.

Lufthansa on Thursday reported quarterly profits slightly above analysts’ consensus on the back of robust travel demand this summer and said bookings remained strong ahead of the busy Christmas holiday season.

Queuing to check in and board a flight is a notoriously tedious experience. But one airport in Germany wants to significantly speed up the process for passengers.

One of Europe’s leading air carriers is launching a new airline for short-haul operations on the continent.

Working together for a more sustainable aviation: Representatives of Lufthansa Airlines, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), Airbus, Flughafen München GmbH and MTU Aero Engines signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) in Berlin for a broad-based research collaboration on Power-to-Liquid (PtL) aviation fuels. PtL is considered the next generation of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF). SAF are a crucial technological key for more sustainable flying and essential for the energy transition in aviation. The planned cooperation will combine the forces of leading aviation companies and academia to accelerate the technology selection, market introduction and industrial scaling of PtL aviation fuels in Germany.

Airlines around the world are facing scrutiny from advertising and consumer agencies, regulators, and courts over allegedly making misleading claims about their sustainability efforts, sometimes dubbed “greenwashing”.

Portugal’s flag carrier TAP said on Wednesday that it swung to a net profit of $25 million (23 million euros) in the first half of 2023 on strong revenue growth, boosted by booming tourism, and forecast a strong performance for the remainder of the year.