Lufthansa Group accelerates fleet modernization by taking delivery of 23 new aircraft

Cologne, Germany, 2014-2-12 — /travelprnews.com/ — Last Friday, February 7, 2014, Lufthansa’s tenth Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental landed at Frankfurt Airport. The “dash-8” is just one of seven brand-new airliners that will be joining the Group in February and March. Over the next few weeks, these ultra-modern jets will be arriving like pearls on a necklace at Frankfurt:… Read the full press release

Lufthansa Group sets new record for sales in passenger traffic during 2013

Cologne, Germany, 2014-1-15 — /travelprnews.com/ — Last year, the Lufthansa Group set a new record for sales in passenger traffic. Traffic in the passenger business (measured in revenue passenger-kilometres) came to more than 209 billion in 2013. This represents an increase of 2.3 per cent compared with the previous year. The Group also beat its previous record… Read the full press release

Lufthansa Group welcomed 7.8 million passengers aboard their aircraft in November 2013, 1.1% up YoY

The Lufthansa Group airlines improved sales (measured in revenue seat-kilometres) in November by 2.1 per cent year-on-year The passenger load factor rose Group-wide by 0.4 per cent to 75.9 per cent A total of 7.8 million passengers flew with a Lufthansa Group airline (an increase of 1.1 per cent year-on-year) Cargo business also developed positively,… Read the full press release

Lufthansa Group’s Cross Mentoring programme turns 15 years, guarantees women are optimally promoted across companies

2013-08-27 — /travelprnews.com/ — Mentoring is a tried and tested method in the Lufthansa Group for the promotion of equality of opportunity for women and men within the context of personnel development. In September, the Cross Mentoring programme already initiated by Lufthansa in 1999 will start with the 15th generation of women with professional ambitions. Currently,… Read the full press release

Lufthansa Group reports on first-half 2013 passenger and freight traffic figures

2013-07-17 — /travelprnews.com/ — The aircraft of all airlines in the Lufthansa Group –  Lufthansa German Airlines (including Germanwings and Lufthansa Regional), SWISS, Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa Cargo –were better utilised in the first half 2013. Increased utilisation is attributable to more demand-driven and more flexible steering of capacity measured in seat and freight-tonne kilometres than… Read the full press release

Lufthansa sponsor of European Wheelchair Basketball Championship 2013

2013-06-21 — /travelprnews.com/ — Fairness, team spirit, performance and success: The Lufthansa Group and sport share the same values. Because in business competition it is scarcely any different to sporting competition. What counts are strength and condition, technology and speed. Lufthansa too goes to the start with the aim of getting just that little bit better…. Read the full press release

Successful resettlement of Eurasian cranes in the British Isles with the support of Lufthansa Group

2013-05-22 — /travelprnews.com/ — News from Great Britain that The Great Crane Project there has succeeded in establishing the resettlement of the Eurasian crane in that country – with the support of the Lufthansa Group. For more than 400 years, the majestic large birds were regarded as being extinct in England. In 2010, within the… Read the full press release