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.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 9, 2015 | Business Class, Economy Class, Fare Sale, Featured, Swiss |
SWISS is running concurrent fare sales for travel between the USA and SWISS destinations throughout Europe.
For Spring travel, SWISS is offering attractive economy fares that start as low as the mid $700 range (Newark – Milan) for travel in April and May. Otherwise, most east coast fares to Europe are under $1000. Fares from the west coast start at approximately $1100 (Los Angeles – Berlin) and range to approximately $1400 on the high end (LAX to Paris or Luxembourg).
For Summer travel, a Business Class fare sale is in place that has most fares from the east coast ranging in the very low $3000 range to most destinations. Fares from the west coast typically run in the $4000-4300 range. The valid travel period for the Business Class sale is between June 29 and September 3.
Keep in mind that the fare sale covers departures & arrivals taking place between Monday and Thursday. Weekend travel will incur a small surcharge.
