by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 4, 2015 | Brussels, Featured, Route Announcements |
Beginning September 14, Brussels Airlines will begin service between Brussels, Belgium and Bremen, Germany.
The flights will operate daily Monday through Friday under the following schedule:
Flight SN2496 will depart Bremen at 7:00p, arriving in Brussels at 8:10p
Flight SN2597 will depart Brussels at 9:00p and arrive in Bremen at 10:10p
According to Brussels Airlines, this will be the first time that Brussels and Bremen will have direct service between one another.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 3, 2015 | Austrian, Brussels, Eurowings, Featured, germanwings, Lufthansa, Swiss |
Beginning September 1, 2015, passengers who book their Lufthansa Group airline tickets via ‘GDS’ outlets will be assessed a €16/$18 surcharge.
‘GDS’ or Global Distribution System tickets are the tickets that are booked through travel agents or online portals such as Orbitz, Expedia, Priceline, etc.
The surcharge is being added due to increases in expenses associated with GDS tickets. Lufthansa Group’s expense incurred with GDS tickets runs into the hundreds of millions of Euro each year due to the expense of the distribution network (fees and commissions paid to the vendors).
Tickets purchased through a Lufthansa Group Airline’s website, service center or ticket counter at the airport will not be subject to this surcharge. This applies to Lufthansa, Brussels, Austrian, SWISS, and Germanwings/Eurowings websites.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 21, 2015 | Featured, Route Announcements, Star Alliance |
ADRIA:
Maribor – London (SEN) effective June 1 will BEGIN 3x/week service (Seasonal until September 29).
AIR CHINA:
Beijing – Jeju effective June 12 will BEGIN 4x/week service. Increases to 1x/day on July 11.
Beijing – Vancouver effective August 11 will increase from 11x/week to 12x/week. Increases to 14x/week on August 17.
Beijing – Yangon effective July 1 will be reduced from 4x/week to 2x/week.
ASIANA:
Seoul (ICN) – Hiroshima effective immediately is CANCELLED until April 30.
Seoul (ICN) – Hiroshima effective April 30 will RESUME 1x/day service.
BRUSSELS:
Brussels – Tenerife South effective October 25 will BEGIN 2x/week service.
Brussels – Las Palmas effective October 28 will BEGIN 2x/week service.
SHENZHEN:
Xi’An – Seoul (ICN) effective between May 4 and July 5 is reduced from 5x/week to 3x/week.
TURKISH:
Istanbul (IST) – Osaka effective November 15 is reduced from 7x/week to 5x/week.
Istanbul (IST) – Tokyo (NRT) effective October 25 is reduced from 14x/week to 11x/week.
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by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 8, 2015 | Austrian, Brussels, Featured, germanwings, Lufthansa, Strike, Swiss |
Due to the scheduled strike by French Air Traffic Controllers that will take place between Wednesday and Friday, Lufthansa Group carriers have been forced to cancel flights to and from Paris.
Thus far, LH has canceled 24 flights for April 8 departing from Frankfurt and Munich, and should the strike go into a second day, additional cancellations can be expected for Thursday April 9. In addition, Germanwings has canceled 12 flights that are scheduled to operated between France and Germany on April 8.
LH Group member ‘SWISS’ has canceled 11 flights for April 8 with more cancellations possible for April 9.
Austrian and Brussels are warning that their flights may be impacted by the strike but they have not published any information regarding cancelled flights as yet.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 2, 2015 | Austrian, Brussels, Featured, germanwings, Lufthansa, Swiss |
On the heels of successful development and testing, LUFTHANSA is set to expand their BioFuel efforts to a new airport for 2015.
Beginning in March, Lufthansa will begin to use a blended Biofuel Kerosene on all flights that depart from Oslo, Norway. This will cover nearly 5,000 departures from Oslo flown by Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian, Brussels and Germanwings. The blended fuel will be provided by Statoil, a Norwegian energy company.
Oslo will be the first airport in the world that will have continuous availability of Bio-Kerosene as plans call for 2.5 million gallons to be delivered to Oslo and pumped directly through it’s refueling infrastructure throughout the year.
As part of this long term development process, Lufthansa had previously tested the use of BioFuel on regularly scheduled flights between Frankfurt and Hamburg for a year and a half as well as on a long-haul test flight between Frankfurt and Washington DC back in 2012.
Lufthansa has been working on a BioFuel alternative for several years and during that time had run extensive testing on a variety of blends from several providers. The challenge has never been the effectiveness or safety of BioFuel but rather finding a sustainable long term supply solution. The key to BioFuel’s future success will depend heavily on Lufthansa’s ability to build a reliable network of suppliers who can source the fuel and meet stringent and consistent criteria as to it’s quality.
