by Lufthansa Flyer | May 30, 2015 | Cargo, Featured, Lufthansa |
Information is beginning to come from several reliable and proven sources that Lufthansa has issued a mandate instructing their African Cargo operations to place a ban on the transport of any African Hunting Trophy aboard LH Aircraft.
This memorandum may have been issued only in the last day or 2 and I am working to confirm additional details. What I understand so far is that the ban is effective immediately and covers any and all hunting trophies that originate in Africa.
With this new policy, LH has joined with South African, Emirates and British Airways in banning ‘Trophy’ cargo. Unfortunately Delta has issued a statement recently affirming that they will continue to allow transit of African Game Trophies aboard their aircraft.
More details as I learn them!
by Lufthansa Flyer | May 27, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa, Voucher |
Lufthansa is offering passengers a voucher good for €20 off of fares European fares booked using Lufthansa’s mobile app or their mobile portal.
The voucher must be redeemed between May 26 and June 30, 2015 and travel must take place between May 27 and November 27, 2015.
To get your voucher code, please CLICK HERE.
To use the voucher directly from your desktop or laptop, visit mobile.lufthansa.com. Otherwise simply use your smartphone’s LH app in order to take advantage of the discount.
by Lufthansa Flyer | May 25, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa |
Carsten Spohr, Lufthansa Group’s CEO, has not ruled out the possibility of subjecting pilots to random drug testing as part of a new policy in the wake of the Germanwings disaster in March.
In an interview with Germany’s FAZ, Spohr, himself a former Lufthansa pilot, explained that such a policy could help identify pilots who are on medications that may make them unfit to fly or otherwise identify medications that the pilots are on that they did not disclose as part of the medical evaluations. This would most likely include screening for alcohol and illegal drugs as well.
From what I gather from the interview and other sources, LH would not administer the drug test but would have an independent third party take care of the screening. It was suggested that this can be something that comes directly from the German government as a mandate for any of Germany’s airlines.
On many levels this makes common sense. Most employers already have policies in their employer-employee agreements that subject employees to random drug testing. If professional athletes and Olympians do it, shouldn’t an airline pilot?
Of course, there may be a very loud NO coming from the union that represents pilots who may construe this recommendation as an invasion of the pilot’s privacy.
I for one am in support of such a policy. If I, as a relatively benign portfolio manager am subject to random drug screening, a pilot should be subject to the same policy.
What are your thoughts? Yes or No for random drug screening for those we trust with our lives?
