by Lufthansa Flyer | Dec 2, 2014 | Featured, Lufthansa, Strike |
What is becoming an old and frustrating tale, the Union that represents the majority of Lufthansa’s pilots has called for yet another strike on Thursday, December 4. This installment will impact long haul flights only, sparing short and medium haul travelers at least for the moment.
The strike will be in effect between 3am and midnight.
When a strike affects long haul flights, LH has usually done a nice job in accommodating passengers to other carriers as well as still having enough of their own pilots available to fly the routes. I’m optimistic that this will be the case this time.
LH has not yet released an updated timetable for Thursday that would list the affected flights. I’ll post an update once they do.
On a side note, I’m starting to wonder where the German government is during this ridiculous extortion of the airline by the union. Thursday’s strike will mark the 10th work stoppage so far this year by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union. However, it is nice to see public sentiment turning against the union since hundreds of thousands of passengers have had their travel plans ruined.
Should you care to voice your displeasure, shoot them a tweet on @VCockpit.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Dec 2, 2014 | Contests, Featured, Swiss |
SWISS has launched this year’s version of their Advent Contest that will award a daily prize to a lucky winner.
The basic premise of the contest is to search for a SWISS logo’d item that is hidden within a photo of one of LX’s destinations. Once you find the item, you are entered to win that day’s prize.
Here is the list of items that you’ll be searching for between now and December 24:
To enter the contest, please use this link. For your first entry you’ll need to register a username and password so that you can log in for subsequent entries during this contest. Good Luck!
by Lufthansa Flyer | Dec 2, 2014 | Business Class, Featured, Fleet Update, Lufthansa, Technik |
Each month Lufthansa updates the status of their Business Class retrofit progress across the long haul fleet. This month’s update confirms that 58 long-haul aircraft now feature the new Business Class cabin.
Here is the breakdown by Aircraft type and then by specific aircraft:
Airbus A330: D-AIKP, D-AIKQ, D-AIKR, D-AIKS (These 4 planes were line-fit meaning that they were delivered by Airbus with the seats installed). D-AIKD, D-AIKE, D-AIKF, D-AIKG, D-AIKH, D-AIKI, D-AIKK, D-AIKM, D-AIKN have all been retrofit by Lufthansa Technik.
Airbus A340-300: D-AIGM, D-AIGS, D-AIGO, D-AIGV, D-AIGT, D-AIGN, D-AIFE, D-AIGZ, D-AIFC, D-AIGX, D-AIGU, D-AIFF, D-AIGL, D-AIFD (All Retrofit).
Airbus A340-600: D-AIHE, D-AIHF, D-AIHK, D-AIHN, D-AIHQ, D-AIHR, D-AIHS, D-AIHV, D-AIHW (All Retrofit).
Airbus A380: D-AIMK, D-AIML, D-AIMB, D-AIME, D-AIMJ, D-AIMC, D-AIMI. MK and ML were line fit.
Boeing 747-8i: All aircraft have the new Business Class (Installed by Boeing as the airplanes were being built).
If you have upcoming Business Class travel on Lufthansa, you can use this tool to determine if your flight will have an aircraft equipped with the new Business Class.
