Lufthansa (LH) in the news

Deutsche Lufthansa AG's offer of a 2.3 percent pay increase for ground crews was rejected today by the workers' union, which is demanding a 5.8 percent raise from Europe's second-biggest airline...

 

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's second-biggest airline, posted a 77 percent jump in 2006 profit as sales gained after the carrier flew more passengers and recovered higher spending on oil with surcharges on tickets...

 

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's second-biggest airline, said earnings will rise this year on growth in air travel and a 500 million-euro gain from the sale of its half of tourism operator Thomas Cook...

 

Deutsche Lufthansa AG Chief Financial Officer Stephan Gemkow said the German airline has a responsibility to consider a possible takeover of Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana, Spain's biggest carrier...

What are they doing trying to buy a OW airline ....get your mitts off IB, LH .

 

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's second-biggest airline, posted a first-quarter profit after booking a gain from the sale of its half of travel-services company Thomas Cook...

 

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's second-biggest airline, said 2007 profit doubled after the carrier added U.S. and Asian routes and offered cheaper tickets...

 

European airlines including Lufthansa are raided as part of a European Commission price-fixing probe...

 

Lufthansa plans to use Jet-Blue as its feeder partner in New York by linking booking systems and frequent-flyer programmes.

The German airline said the link-up with the US carrier, in which Lufthansa took a 19 per cent stake at the end of last year, was aimed at creating a quasi-hub at JFK airport.

It said the move would add to the benefits of owning BMI British Midland, the UK airline in which Lufthansa holds a stake of just under 30 per cent and in which it has an option to buy a majority stake from December.

The German carrier has long wanted to challenge its rival British Airways on the lucrative routes between London Heathrow and the US.

 

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's second-biggest airline, will pay SWISS AIR shareholders 269 million Swiss francs ($US267 million) because of Lufthansa's stock market performance since it took operational control of Switzerland's former national airline....

 

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's second-biggest carrier, posted a smaller-than-expected drop in first-quarter profit as the airline flew more passengers and its Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. unit added to earnings....