by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 13, 2015 | Austrian, Featured, Lufthansa, Route Announcements, Star Alliance |
AEGEAN:
Larnaca – Milan effective May 31 will BEGIN 2x/week service.
Larnaca – Mykonos effective July 2 will BEGIN 2x/week service, increasing to 3x/week on July 13.
Larnaca – Rhodes effective June 15 will BEGIN 3x/week service.
Larnaca – Thira effective July 16 will BEGIN 2x/week service.
AIR CANADA (Rouge):
Vancouver – Osaka effective May 1 will BEGIN 4x/week service, increasing to 5x/week on June 1.
AIR CHINA:
Beijing – Honolulu effective July 13 will increase from 3x/week to 5x/week.
Beijing – Los Angeles effective October 25 will be reduced from 21x/week to 18x/week.
Beijing – Paris effective October 25 will be reduced from 14x/week to 11x/week.
Beijing – Singapore effective between July 1 and August 31 will be reduced from 14x/week to 11x/week.
Hangzhou – Bangkok effective June 12 will BEGIN 3x/week service.
AIR NEW ZEALAND:
Auckland – Maroochydore effective between December 13 and January 28 will BEGIN 3x/week service.
AUSTRIAN:
Vienna – Mauritius effective December 19 will increase from 1x/week to 2x/week (Route begins on October 29 with 1x/week service)
Vienna – Colombo (Sri Lanka) effective October 27 will BEGIN 1x/week service.
ETHIOPIAN:
Addis Ababa – Mumbai increase from 1x/day to 2x/day has been delayed from March 29 to June 2.
LUFTHANSA:
Frankfurt – Ottawa – Montreal will operate ONE TIME on May 31.
Munich – Kittila effective December 19 will BEGIN 1x/week service.
THAI (Smile):
Bangkok – Narathiwat effective April 10 BEGAN 1x/day service.
TURKISH:
Istanbul (IST) – Isfahan effective May 1 will increase from 4x/week to 5x/week.
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by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 13, 2015 | Featured, germanwings |
Germanwings flight 826, service between Cologne and Milan, was forced to be evacuated after the airline received a bomb threat via an e-mail.
The plane had already departed its gate at Cologne and was proceeding to the runway when the threat came to the attention of the airline. The airline was parked in a remote location of the airport where 126 passengers were forced to evacuate.
Predictably, German Federal Police and their sniffer dogs were unable to find any explosives and passengers were put on another aircraft for their flight to Milan.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 11, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa, Miles & More |
Lufthansa’s Miles&More program underwent a cyber attack on Friday which resulted in the theft of miles and vouchers from a small number of accounts.
According to Lufthansa, damage was limited to a few hundred accounts and any miles or vouchers that were stolen or used have been restored to the rightful owner. Fortunately this was not as wide spread as the data breach that British Airways suffered that resulted in the hacking of 10’s of thousands of frequent flyer accounts just a few weeks ago.
Lufthansa’s IT department had identified the fraudulent activity early on as they discovered ‘Bots’ trying to using random username and passwords until the right combinations were found by the Bot. Once the ‘Bot’ was discovered, it was quickly removed and things were returned to normal.
Apparently no personal data was retrieved by this cyber attack, it was simply an attack trying to figure out user names and passwords. For the accounts that were affected, LH has changed the account numbers and contacted members to change user name and passwords.
It may behoove you to check your account and balances just to make sure you were not impacted.
