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LUFTHANSA CARGO Unveils ‘Cargo Human Care’ Livery

by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 27, 2015 | Cargo, Featured, Fleet Update, Lufthansa, Plane Spotting | 1 comment

Lufthansa Cargo yesterday unveiled one of their MD-11s with a fresh new livery celebrating the good work that LH Cargo does with ‘Cargo Human Care’.

For those of you unfamiliar with Cargo Human Care (CHC), it is an organization almost exclusively comprised of Lufthansa Cargo employees (past and present) who volunteer their time and efforts to help a variety of organizations in and around Nairobi, Kenya.

The organization coordinates with Doctors, Surgeons and other medical professionals to bring them to Kenya on regular rotations so that they can provide medical care to those in need. These volunteers fly aboard LH Cargo flights to Nairobi, along with supplies and materials that are needed for various projects.

One of their most important efforts is the help they bring the the Mothers Mercy Home in Kianjogu, Kenya. The home provides shelter and care for approximately 120 orphaned children. Along side the home is the Cargo Human Care Medical Center which provides free medical treatments to members of the local community. Last year, CHC treated over 22,000 people at their clinic!

In the coming weeks, I’ll share more about CHC and the good deeds that they bring to those in need, including some of the great accomplishments that CHC has achieved. In the mean time, if you’d like to learn more about CHC, please visit their website.

Now back to the livery……

LH Cargo took one of the MD11s and dressed it up in a CHC theme and unveiled it in Frankfurt. As you’ll see below, the MD11 (D-ALCH) is adorned in children’s footprints symbolizing CHC’s ‘Step by step. Giving children a future’ slogan. I can’t think of many better ways to bring awareness to such a great organization and cause!

Some of the kids helped by CHC add their personal touch to the new livery.

D-ALCH arriving in Nairobi, courtesy of Lufthansa Cargo

Arrival at the ramp in Nairobi, courtesy of Lufthansa Cargo

Here are a couple of ‘unofficial’ photos showing the aircraft in the hangar shortly after having the new livery added…..

Lufthansa Cabin Crew Union Calls Off Strikes Pending Meeting

by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 25, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa, Strike | 0 comments

It appears that the union made a reasonable decision to cancel this week’s strikes to give an opportunity for a December 2 meeting with LH to take place in good faith.

That meeting had been called by Lufthansa last week in an attempt to sit down with all 3 unions to discuss a way forward.

Earlier this week UFO had called for a strike for late this week and next Monday, so at least for now flights will take place as scheduled and won’t impact Thanksgiving Holiday travel to Europe. The union in fact did confirm it will not plan any strikes ahead of December 2.

LUFTHANSA Strike Threats Return For This Week….

by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 23, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa, Strike | 2 comments

Just when I thought that there was hope for labor peace due to an upcoming sit down between the 3 Unions and Lufthansa, one of the Unions pulls a fast one and threatens to strike this week.

Our ‘friends’ at UFO, who represent the cabin crews and who were responsible for the recent week-long series of strikes have once again scheduled to strike. This time plans call for the walkouts to take place this week on Thursday and Friday, November 26 and 27. And if they aren’t appeased, they’ll strike again on Monday November 30.

Details of the strikes were not yet announced but I expect them to cover the whole range of LH’s service, including Long Haul, Intra-German, and European routes.

I’m surprised at this latest gambit especially because a meeting had been scheduled by Lufthansa that was to be held on December 2 where all 3 unions were to sit and discuss what it would take to reach a long term agreement on labor.

So much for goodwill and olive branches…..