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Lufthansa positive on biofuel but delays use

National: 11 Jan 12
German airline Lufthansa said on Wednesday it would not start using biofuel despite positive results from a six-month testing period on flights between two German cities. READ »

Iranian airline buys Merkel’s old plane

National: 21 Nov 11
The German government was embarrassed this weekend following revelations that an Iranian airline bypassed trade sanctions to acquire an aeroplane formerly used by Chancellors Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel. READ »

Tomato juice tastes 'plane' better at high altitude says scientist

Science & Technology: 11 Nov 11
Nearly a quarter of people who drink tomato juice while flying say they only like it while sitting in a plane. Why? A German scientist has discovered the red stuff actually does taste different at high altitudes. READ »

Lufthansa agrees to sell British Midland

Business & Money: 4 Nov 11
German airline Lufthansa said on Friday it has agreed in principle to sell its loss-making unit British Midland to the International Airlines Group, the holding company of British Airways. READ »

Third Lufthansa plane forced to land in a week

National: 27 Oct 11
A Lufthansa plane was forced to land at Frankfurt Airport ahead of schedule on Wednesday evening after the crew noticed a strange smell in the cabin, an airline spokesman confirmed. It was the third such incident for the airline in a week. READ »

DAX boards took major pay increases last year

Business & Money: 26 Oct 11
Germany’s top companies paid their supervisory boards better last year than the previous year, with the most generous rises approaching 40 percent – despite an average worker’s wage increasing by 1.6 percent over the same period. READ »

Frankfurt Airport expands with new runway

National: 21 Oct 11
Germany’s biggest airport was expanded by a runway on Friday, when Chancellor Angela Merkel ceremonially landed in Frankfurt on it in a government plane. READ »

Air Berlin under fire for lawmaker perks

Politics: 11 Oct 11
Air Berlin has been offering special perks to members of the German parliament, something which an anti-corruption group charges could cross the line into unethical lobbying. READ »

Lufthansa to fly less and with smaller planes

Business & Money: 22 Sep 11
Fearing an economic downturn, Germany’s flagship airline Lufthansa is cutting flights and capacity, the company announced on Thursday. READ »

Air Berlin to save €200 mln with reduced fleet

Business & Money: 21 Sep 11
Air Berlin, Germany’s second-largest airline, is announcing dramatic savings plans to improve its results by €200 million a year, by reducing its fleet from the current figure of 170 to 152 by next summer. READ »

Court says Lufthansa pilots can fly until they reach 65

Business & Money: 14 Sep 11
Lufthansa pilots have shot down a rule which forced them to retire at 60, and can now continue to fly until they are 65, with a ruling from the European Court of Justice which said anything else would be discrimination. READ »

Lufthansa cancels all NY flights due to hurricane

National: 27 Aug 11
German airline Lufthansa on Saturday cancelled all flights to and from New York for the rest of the weekend as the US East Coast braces for the landing of hurricane Irene. READ »

Lufthansa sees major profit increase

Business & Money: 28 Jul 11
Lufthansa on Thursday posted second quarter net profits of more than €300 million, a 55.2 percent rise on the same period last year when Iceland's volcanic eruption hit the industry. READ »

Not everyone cheering Lufthansa biofuel test

Science & Technology: 15 Jul 11
Lufthansa is testing biosynthetic fuels on Airbus A321 flights between Hamburg and Frankfurt and, if the trial is successful, hopes to expand use of the fuel across its fleet. READ »

Ash airspace closure possibly unnecessary

National: 26 May 11
The closure of German airspace due to the threat from a volcano ash cloud may have been unnecessary, with authorities making an off-the-cuff decision on flimsy data, a media report said on Thursday. READ »

Airports reopened after ash cloud closure

National: 25 May 11
All German airports closed during Wednesday because of the ash cloud from an Iceland volcano have opened again. READ »

Germany’s civilized killjoys

Analysis & Opinion: 9 May 11
Are Germans right to criticize the joyous reaction to the killing of Osama bin Laden? Der Tagesspiegel’s Moritz Schuller detects a misplaced whiff of condescension. READ »

Lufthansa traffic hit by Japan disaster

Business & Money: 6 May 11
The head of German flag carrier Lufthansa said Friday Japan bookings have fallen since the earthquake and tsunami in March but he hoped demand would stabilise in the second and third quarters. READ »

Competition authority probes Lufthansa

National: 28 Apr 11
German authorities are reportedly probing the airline Lufthansa for allegedly distorting competition among business travellers. READ »

Lufthansa pilot caught with deadly slingshots

Society: 12 Apr 11
A Lufthansa pilot has been arrested at Frankfurt Airport after he tried to bring two deadly slingshots and hundreds of ball bearings into Germany, officials said Tuesday. READ »

Fake euro coin scam uncovered

National: 31 Mar 11
Investigators probing a massive fraud involving fake euro coins have arrested six people in the Frankfurt area, including Lufthansa flight attendants, authorities announced Thursday. READ »

Radiation checks offered to travellers from Japan

National: 24 Mar 11
Travellers returning from Japan can be checked for radioactive contamination by authorities, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) announced Thursday. READ »

Lufthansa forecasts profits to withstand tough 2011

Business & Money: 17 Mar 11
Leading German airline Lufthansa on Thursday forecast improved operating profit and sales for this year and next, though 2011 is expected to be tough on the industry. The airline also announced the expansion and modernisation of its fleet. READ »

Germans told to leave Tokyo and Bahrain

National: 16 Mar 11
Germany advised its citizens on Wednesday to leave the greater Tokyo region because of the crisis at a Japanese nuclear plant. Meanwhile Germans were also told to leave the Gulf state of Bahrain as protests become increasingly violent. READ »

Lufthansa diverts Tokyo flights to Nagoya, Osaka

National: 15 Mar 11
German airline Lufthansa said Tuesday it was diverting all Tokyo-bound flights to other Japanese cities through at least Sunday. READ »

Lufthansa scans Japan flights for radioactivity

National: 14 Mar 11
Lufthansa is scanning aircraft that return from Japan for radioactivity but has not detected any yet, the German airline said on Monday. READ »

Lufthansa soared back to profit in 2010

Business & Money: 9 Mar 11
Leading German airline, Lufthansa, reported on Wednesday a net profit of €1.1 billion ($1.5 billion) in 2010, as it bounced back from a net loss of €34 million in 2009. READ »

DKB-Cash: Banking in Germany made easy

Business & Money: 6 Mar 11
If you live your life between Germany and another country, finding an account to suit your needs can be hard. The award-winning DKB-Cash account is specially designed to meet the needs of clients with international lifestyles. READ »

DKB-Cash: Banking in Germany made easy

Business & Money: 3 Mar 11
If you live your life between Germany and another country, finding an account to suit your needs can be hard. The award-winning DKB-Cash account is specially designed to meet the needs of clients with international lifestyles. READ »

Westerwelle calls for Qaddafi clan sanctions

Politics: 25 Feb 11
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle renewed his call for sanctions against Libya on Friday as US President Barack Obama tried to coordinate a quick effort by world leaders to respond to the intensifying crisis in the North African country. READ »

Warships head to Libya

National: 24 Feb 11
Three warships are on their way toward Libya to help with the evacuation of German citizens from the crisis-hit country, where violence continues to intensify. Germany has recommended all its nationals leave. READ »

Germany: Libyan regime has 'lost all legitimacy'

National: 23 Feb 11
Germany said Wednesday that the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had lost all legitimacy, as evidence grew of a "bloodbath" in the North African country. READ »

Lufthansa South American flights make emergency landings

Society: 22 Feb 11
A Lufthansa jumbo jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Buenos Aires after running into a flock of birds and a flight from Sao Paulo was aborted due to technical problems, the airline said Tuesday. READ »

DAX companies oppose gender quota

Business & Money: 10 Feb 11
A new survey shows Germany’s largest companies are overwhelmingly opposed to a mandatory quota for women in executive positions, with only one firm coming out in favour. READ »

Government warns against all travel to Egypt

National: 1 Feb 11
The German government stepped up its travel advice for Egypt Tuesday, warning “strongly” against travel to any part of the country, which is in the grip of violent and chaotic anti-government protests. READ »

Frankfurt Airport bus rams crowd, killing one

Society: 20 Jan 11
A young woman was killed and at least five people injured when a bus ploughed into a group of workers at Frankfurt Airport Thursday morning, police have announced. READ »

Lufthansa passenger traffic cracks 90 million

Business & Money: 12 Jan 11
Germany's leading airline Lufthansa said Wednesday its business got a big lift last year from recovery in air travel, reporting that its traffic jumped 17.2 percent to 90.2 million passengers. READ »

Lufthansa to create 4,000 jobs in Germany

Business & Money: 3 Jan 11
German national air carrier Lufthansa will create 4,000 jobs in the country in 2011, its new boss Christoph Franz said on Monday. READ »

Lufthansa plane stuck six hours on JFK tarmac

National: 30 Dec 10
Passengers on a Lufthansa flight suffered the after-effects of a powerful blizzard paralyzing New York City this week, when their plane was forced to sit on the tarmac at JFK airport for more than six hours after landing. READ »

Lufthansa to invest heavily in Munich hub

Business & Money: 22 Dec 10
German airline Lufthansa and Munich Airport said Wednesday they will invest heavily to raise capacity at the carrier's hub in southern Germany by more than 40 percent from 2015. READ »

Transport freeze begins to thaw

National: 22 Dec 10
As the clock ticks down to Christmas, the winter transport chaos that has gripped Germany began to settle down Wednesday with airlines gradually resuming normal schedules and Deutsche Bahn deploying extra trains. READ »

Harsh winter set to cost €3 billion

Business & Money: 21 Dec 10
The brutal start to winter is set to cost Germany’s recovering economy billions of euros as industries such as construction and logistics slow down or even grind to a halt. READ »

Snow briefly shuts down Frankfurt Airport

National: 21 Dec 10
Germany’s transport chaos deepened Tuesday morning with the temporary suspension of all flights in and out of the key hub of Frankfurt Airport. READ »

Travel chaos reigns at Frankfurt airport

National: 19 Dec 10
Frankfurt airport, Germany's busiest, cancelled some 490 flights Sunday due to heavy snowfall, and Lufthansa is advising people booked on domestic flights to exchange their tickets for rail vouchers. READ »

Winter travel havoc persists

National: 10 Dec 10
Winter weather continued to wreak havoc on German air travel on Friday, with more snow, sleet and freezing temperatures forcing airports to cancel flights across the country. READ »

Lufthansa to offer internet on most flights

Business & Money: 30 Nov 10
Germany's leading airline Lufthansa said Tuesday that it will offer internet access on nearly its entire network by the end of next year, beginning with some flights to North America. READ »

Dozens of Eurowings flights cancelled Friday

National: 26 Nov 10
Dozens of domestic flights in Germany were set to be cancelled Friday morning after 140 pilots from the Lufthansa regional subsidiary Eurowings walked off the job. READ »

Lufthansa gets new A380 as safety concerns persist

Business & Money: 16 Nov 10
German flag carrier Lufthansa will receive a new Airbus A380 on Tuesday, just one day after a concern with one of the super jumbo jets forced the airline to unload some 400 passengers headed from Frankfurt to Tokyo. READ »

Lufthansa A380s to keep flying despite Qantas explosion

National: 4 Nov 10
German flag carrier Lufthansa said on Thursday it had no plans to ground its three A380 jets after a Qantas flight with more than 450 people on board made a dramatic forced landing in Singapore. READ »

Lufthansa's profits soar

Business & Money: 28 Oct 10
Germany's leading airline Lufthansa said on Thursday that its third quarter net profit soared to €628 million ($867 million), tripling its results from the same period a year earlier as the economy improved. READ »

Lufthansa increases offerings for winter

Business & Money: 18 Oct 10
Germany’s largest airline Lufthansa plans to expand its 2010-2011 winter offerings to include more seats and new destinations, the company said on Monday. READ »

Böhse Onkelz singer jailed for hit-and-run accident on drugs

Society: 4 Oct 10
Kevin Russell, the former singer of the German hard rock band Böhse Onkelz, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison on Monday for seriously injuring two people in a hit-and-run accident while driving on drugs. READ »

RAF's Becker silent as murder trial opens

Society: 30 Sep 10
Former Baader-Meinhof gang member Verena Becker stubbornly kept her silence at the opening of her trial Thursday for her alleged role in murdering West Germany's top prosecutor during the far-left group's 1970s campaign of violence. READ »

Becker trial to review Baader-Meinhof killing

National: 30 Sep 10
A trial starting on Thursday will dredge up the Baader-Meinhof gang's reign of terror three decades ago, a bloody period that shook West Germany's political system to its foundations. READ »

Böhse Onkelz singer on trial for drugged-up hit-and-run

Society: 24 Sep 10
Kevin Russell, the former singer of the band Böhse Onkelz, faces a Frankfurt court Friday after allegedly taking drugs on New Year’s Eve 2009, seriously injuring two people in a high speed crash and then fleeing the scene. READ »

Report says pilot error caused Saudi freight crash

National: 1 Aug 10
A Lufthansa cargo plane that crashed at Riyadh's airport this week did so due to a bad landing by its pilots, the first results of a Saudi probe showed on Saturday. READ »

Lufthansa cargo plane crashes in Saudi Arabia

National: 27 Jul 10
A cargo plane owned by Lufthansa crashed in Riyadh on Tuesday injuring the two-man crew, the German airline said, confirming earlier statements by a Saudi official. READ »

Economy in 'party mood,' survey finds

Business & Money: 23 Jul 10
Germany’s business climate has shown the biggest monthly improvement since reunification, the respected Ifo economic institute reported Friday, in another sign that the crisis is but a distant memory. READ »

Airlines outraged over planned passenger departure tax

Business & Money: 15 Jul 10
German airlines reacted angrily Thursday to details of a proposed new tax on passengers leaving the country's airports that could boost ticket prices for long-haul destinations by €26 ($33). READ »

Lufthansa ends lengthy pilot labour dispute

Business & Money: 25 Jun 10
German airline Lufthansa ended a long-running labour dispute with its pilots late on Thursday with an agreement that included a wage freeze, both parties announced. READ »

Premium rate service lines to drop fee for waiting callers

Business & Money: 19 Jun 10
The infuriating telephone queues on premium rate customer ‘service’ lines where the caller pays in full to hear music or repeated recordings telling them how valued their custom is, will soon be free. READ »

Lufthansa announces higher ticket prices

Business & Money: 16 Jun 10
Lufthansa, Europe's biggest airline by passenger numbers, said Wednesday it would raise the price of most flights but partially offset the increase by lowering fuel surcharges. READ »

Berlin Air Show takes off

National: 8 Jun 10
The Berlin Air Show welcomed the world's leading aerospace firms to the German capital on Tuesday, with Airbus's A380 superjumbo set to be one of the stars. READ »

Lufthansa demands EU compensation for volcano losses

Business & Money: 7 Jun 10
The head of the German airline Lufthansa called Monday for the European Union to pay carriers compensation for business lost owing to the closure of European airspace after the eruption of an Icelandic volcano. READ »

German team arrives in South Africa ahead of World Cup

Sport: 7 Jun 10
Germany was among the latest national teams to arrive in South Africa on Monday for the first World Cup staged on the continent. READ »

Persecuted by the Nazis, former Berliners visit their hometown

Society: 3 Jun 10
A programme offering people persecuted by the Nazis a chance to visit their former hometown Berlin is slowly winding down. Julia Lipkins speaks with some of the last survivors. READ »

University graduates pick Audi as best place to work

Business & Money: 20 May 10
Germany’s most attractive employer among this year's crop of university graduates is Ingolstadt-based luxury carmaker Audi, a survey showed this week. READ »

Lufthansa receives first A380 superjumbo

National: 19 May 10
German airline Lufthansa on Wednesday celebrated the handover of its first “superjumbo” A380 jetliner, which manufacture Airbus hopes will revolutionise long-distance air travel. READ »

Southern German airports reopen after ash cloud scare

National: 10 May 10
Five southern German airports closed due to a second ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano have been reopened, authorities announced late on Sunday evening. READ »

Volcano forces closure of Munich airport

National: 9 May 10
A second ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull currently drifting over southern Europe forced the closure of Munich airport Sunday afternoon. READ »

Lufthansa forecasts higher profits for 2010

Business & Money: 5 May 10
Lufthansa, the biggest European airline, said on Wednesday it expected stronger profits this year despite a sharp first-quarter loss, but stressed the environment was uncertain. READ »

Cracking the corporate glass ceiling

Society: 28 Apr 10
Chancellor Angela Merkel might frequently be ranked the world's most powerful woman, but as Kyle James reports, gender inequality in the workplace remains a stubborn problem in Germany. READ »

Transport minister holds volcano fallout summit

National: 27 Apr 10
German Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer will host a meeting for airlines and aviation officials in Berlin on Tuesday to review ways to handle future problems with volcanic ash. READ »

Lufthansa offers iPhone loser free flight for German pub crawl

Society: 23 Apr 10
Gray Powell, the Apple employee who compromised the firm’s product security by losing a top-secret iPhone prototype after too much German beer, has been offered a chance to drown his sorrows in Munich by German carrier Lufthansa. READ »

Government defends lengthy flight ban

National: 22 Apr 10
Government leaders in Germany scrambled on Thursday to defend the decisions taken over the past week to clear the skies because of the threat of volcanic ash, as airlines continued to resume their normal flight schedules. READ »

Ash danger unclear despite green light

National: 21 Apr 10
Air traffic authorities’ Wednesday decision to lift restrictions on German airspace – effectively declaring it safe to fly – was based on the same data previously criticised as insufficient by airlines, officials told The Local. READ »

Travel havoc continues as flight ban is extended

National: 20 Apr 10
German authorities have extended the closure of the country's air space to 2 am Wednesday due to the giant plume of volcanic ash, though some airlines continued to operate flights with special permission. READ »

Test flights show no damage to planes

National: 20 Apr 10
Two comprehensive test flights by aircraft-maker Airbus have shown no damage to aircraft or pilot's visibility, a company spokesman said Tuesday, suggesting the danger in volcanic ash-affected European airspace is lower than thought. READ »

German airlines resume limited flight schedules

National: 20 Apr 10
Many German airlines resumed service on Tuesday morning despite another extension on the flight ban until at least 8 pm due to volcanic ash still hovering over Europe. READ »

Flight ban now stretched to early Tuesday

National: 19 Apr 10
Germany's DFS air safety agency has extended until 2 am Tuesday the shutdown of its air space because of volcanic ash. READ »

Transport Minister defends flight ban

National: 19 Apr 10
Federal Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer has defended extensions to the flight ban against mounting criticism from the airline industry that decisions are being made on insufficient data. READ »

German airlines question extended flight ban

National: 18 Apr 10
Germany's two largest airlines have questioned the sense of the flight ban - now extended until 8 pm on Sunday as a cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland continues to occupy European air space. READ »

Air travel ban extended into Sunday evening

National: 18 Apr 10
German airspace has been closed until at least Sunday 8 pm, as the weather continues to blow the ash from the Icelandic volcano over mainland Europe, halting practically all air travel. READ »

Lufthansa not insured against volcano impact

Business & Money: 16 Apr 10
Europe’s largest airline Lufthansa is not insured against the financial fallout of the volcanic ash cutting off air traffic to much of northern Europe, the company said on Friday. READ »

Munich closure to ground German air travel

National: 16 Apr 10
Munich was the final major German airport to close on Friday evening, after volcanic ash from Iceland halted air traffic across the country. Lufthansa announced it was grounding all flights until noon Saturday. READ »

Volcanic ash shuts Berlin and Hamburg airports

National: 15 Apr 10
Ash floating thousands of kilometres from an erupting volcano in Iceland has forced the closure of airports in Berlin, Hamburg and other northern German cities overnight. READ »

Air traffic controllers back strike

National: 9 Apr 10
Germany’s air traffic controllers have decided to go on strike following failed negotiations with the country’s DFS air traffic authority, the group’s union GdF announced on Friday. READ »

Lufthansa pilots call off planned strike

Business & Money: 8 Apr 10
Pilots for Europe’s largest airline Lufthansa have called of their threat to strike following an agreement on negotiation guidelines between their union Cockpit and the carrier. READ »

Second Lufthansa pilots' strike looms

National: 3 Apr 10
The odds of a further Lufthansa strike shortened Saturday with the pilots’ union vowing it would not back away from threats to walk off the job in just over a week. READ »

Lufthansa pilots threaten strike as wage talks fail

National: 22 Mar 10
Lufthansa pilots threatened on Monday to stage a crippling strike as contentious wage talks with Europe’s biggest airline broke down. READ »

Munich flight grounded as Japanese tourists fall violently ill

National: 21 Mar 10
The takeoff of a Munich flight to Tokyo was aborted after two dozen Japanese tourists on board fell ill with violent stomach cramps, the police said on Sunday. READ »

Lufthansa slowly restores service after strike

National: 24 Feb 10
Lufthansa is still working towards restoring full service two days after pilots ended their strike, an airline spokesperson said on Wednesday. READ »

Strike ends as Lufthansa and pilots resume talks

National: 22 Feb 10
German airline Lufthansa and pilots agreed late on Monday to resume talks, ending a one-day strike that grounded almost half of all flights at Europe's biggest airline. But disruptions in service are still expected to last until Friday. READ »