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Lufthansa launched its inaugural flight between Munich and Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport earlier this week. 

Last week, I wrote an article on my experience with Lufthansa CityLine as part of my exploration into how Lufthansa Regional brands compare with mainline Lufthansa. While CityLine is well-integrated into the Lufthansa fleet, there is another Lufthansa Regional carrier that is more unique, and it’s an airline that many might not know is associated […]

I’ve spent a lot of my time flying between the United States and Germany over the past year. A majority of those back-and-forths trips have been on Lufthansa, Germany’s flag carrier and one of the better-known airlines in Europe. Much of the flying that Lufthansa mainline does is international. While the company certainly flies a […]

Iceland has become famous over the past few years for serving as a connection point between North America and Europe. The travel model — championed by WOW Air before its bankruptcy and continued by Play and Icelandair — sees passengers flying between major North American and European cities with a stop in Keflavík. Thousands of passengers […]

On Thursday, the Lufthansa Group announced the summer 2022 schedule for its new leisure-based long-haul subsidiary, Eurowings Discover, including the launch of two new destinations in the Lufthansa Group network and five other new routes. Specifically, the long-haul airline will launch flights to Kilimanjaro, Tanzania and Salt Lake City. Eurowings Discover will fly from Frankfurt […]

Lufthansa is now flying its flagship Airbus A380-800s on its route between Munich and Shanghai’s Pudong Airport as of Jan. 2, 2020. The route was previously flown by Lufthansa’s long-flying Airbus A340-600. This change in aircraft increases the capacity of Lufthansa’s Shanghai service by around 230 seats per flight. Lufthansa’s A380s, like its A340s, features […]

When Lufthansa began flights to San Jose, Calif., the carrier knew it had to do something unique to celebrate the newly established connection to the tech-focused Silicon Valley region. As airline officials began brainstorming how to mark the new service, the team wanted to create something innovative that no one else was doing. Despite being […]

In May 2019, Lufthansa Group airlines welcomed 2.8 percent more passengers than in May 2018 at around 13.2 million passengers. There were also 3.5 percent more available seat kilometers over the previous year and sales increased by 5.7 percent. Seat load factor also increased by 1.7 percent to 81.1 percent. The airlines’ cargo capacity was […]

Eurowings recently made the move to a new location at its base in Munich. The Lufthansa Group’s low-cost airline subsidiary has moved all departure and arrival operations from Terminal 2 to Terminal 1 of Munich Airport starting in the beginning of June in a move to give their travelers a not only one connected area […]

In November 2018, LATAM cheerfully announced flights between Sao Paulo and Munich as part of its fierce European expansion plan from its hub in the Brazilian metropolis that aims to position Sao Paulo as a key transit point for passengers between South America and Europe.  However, after unpromising sale forecasts, the airline announced it would […]