by Lufthansa Flyer | Sep 16, 2015 | Austrian, Cargo, Corporate, Featured, Lufthansa, Passenger Experience |
As part of their ongoing ‘7:1: Our Way Forward’ campaign, Lufthansa has announced plans to streamline its operation, eliminate redundancies among the group’ airlines and reorganize into 3 operating units.
Plans call for Lufthansa Group to organize itself into 3 operating divisions:
Lufthansa Group Mainline: This unit will be comprised of the airline’s mainline carriers including SWISS, Austrian and Lufthansa.
Eurowings Group: This unit will focus on all of LH Group’s low cost carrier (LCC) operations including JUMP, Germanwings and Eurowings.
Aviation Companies: This unit will include Lufthansa Technik, Lufthansa Cargo and Skychefs and other subsidiaries.
The objective with this reorganization is to better align business units so that they can benefit from mutual operating efficiencies and to provide their respect customers with a simplified way in working with Lufthansa.
As it stands now, each of the mainline carriers has their own policies and procedures, fare structures, etc. With the revamped units, we’ll see a better consistency across the airlines which should help improve the passenger experience.
With the change in structure, we should see a much more efficient and responsive airline. For example, LH currently has over ‘700 decision making units’ and 47 Human Resources units. Overlap and excess such as this are the key focus of the initiative.
As far as the bottom line is concerned, Lufthansa expects a savings of over 500 million Euros annually once the transition is complete in 2019.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Aug 19, 2015 | Austrian, Eurowings, Featured, LCC |
Earlier this month Lufthansa’s LCC subsidiary, Eurowings, announced the addition of new routes to their timetable. The flights will actually be operated by AUSTRIAN aircraft and Austrian will also codeshare these flights with ‘EW’. The new routes are as follows:
Beginning on November 9, daily service will begin between Vienna and Barcelona and will be flown by A320 aircraft:
Flight EW5922 will depart Vienna at 12:10p, arriving in Barcelona at 2:30p.
Flight EW5923 will depart Barcelona at 3:10p and arrive in Vienna at 5:30p.
On November 9, 6x/week service will begin between Vienna and London Stansted. The route will be flown once a day except Saturdays and will be operated with A320 aircraft:
Flight EW5832 will depart Vienna at 6:15p, arriving in Stansted at 7:25p.
Flight EW5833 will depart Stansted at 8:05p, arriving in Vienna at 11:10p.
On November 9, 3x/week service will begin between Vienna and Palma Mallorca. The route will be flown on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. A320 aircraft will fly on the route:
Flight EW4912 will depart Vienna at 6:00a, arriving in Palma at 8:25a.
Flight EW4913 will depart Palma at 9:05a, arriving in Vienna at 11:30a.
On November 9, 3x/week service will begin between Vienna and Rome. The route will be flown on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. A320 aircraft will fly on the route:
Flight EW5880 will depart Vienna at 7:25a, arriving in Rome at 9:05a.
Flight EW 5881 will depart Rome at 9:45a, arriving in Vienna at 11:30a.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Aug 14, 2015 | Austrian, Featured, United |
AUSTRIAN has announced the addition of several routes to its existing codeshare agreement with United Airlines.
Beginning on August 19 the codeshare relationship will expand to cover all United’s flights between the US and London’s Heathrow Airport. The US cities included are Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, San Francisco and Washington Dulles.
Further expansion of the codeshare arrangement takes place on October 25 when the codeshare will expand to cover flights between:
Newark and Los Angeles
Newark and San Francisco
The codeshare arrangements will help Austrians passengers book streamlined tickets between Vienna and the US via London Heathrow as well as onward travel to the west coast from Austrians service between Vienna and Newark.
