Tag: flight chaos
Payment principle for air travel is to be reformed
Hanover Airport With a Federal Council initiative, Lower Saxony wants to abolish the prepayment principle for air travel. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZBV),…
Payment principle for air travel is to be reformed
Hanover Airport With a Federal Council initiative, Lower Saxony wants to abolish the prepayment principle for air travel. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZBV),…
So passengers could get their money back faster
Passengers at the Eurowings counter in Dusseldorf The airline has canceled numerous connections due to staffing problems – despite prepaid tickets. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The state of Lower Saxony, which…
Lufthansa cuts ticket offer – 10,000 new hires planned
Frankfurt Will the crisis become the new normal for Lufthansa? The management of Europe’s largest airline group seems to assume so. The consequences of the war in Ukraine and the…
Lufthansa cuts ticket offer – 10,000 new hires planned
Frankfurt Will the crisis become the new normal for Lufthansa? The management of Europe’s largest airline group seems to assume so. The consequences of the war in Ukraine and the…
Lufthansa cuts ticket offer – 10,000 new hires planned
Lufthansa The crisis-ridden airline expects an operating profit. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt In view of the massive operational problems in air traffic, Lufthansa is ramping up flight operations in the summer…
Lufthansa pilots vote for new strike
Lufthansa pilots strike The cockpit staff of the largest German airline has spoken out in favor of the work stoppage by a large majority. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The majority of…
Uniper rescue, departure of the VW boss: The editor-in-chief’s weekly review
Dusseldorf Good morning dear readers, when it came to solidarity in Europe, then Germany has always played a role that oscillated somewhere between gentle patron and strict big brother. During…
Airports: reorganization of aviation security tasks necessary?
“Clear priority at the moment is managing the situation at the airports for summer and autumn travel,” said a spokesman for department head Nancy Faeser (SPD) to the Handelsblatt. “All…
Why the chaos at airports is getting bigger
Baggage jam at Frankfurt Airport Because there is a lack of staff, the airport currently prefers to process the luggage of transfer passengers. A lot of suitcases are therefore left…
Air traffic controllers under constant stress due to travel chaos
Tower at Bremen Airport Long Good news in the travel chaos at Germany’s airports: Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) sees itself well prepared for the increased demand. “DFS is building capacity and…
Air traffic controllers under constant stress due to travel chaos at airports
Tower at Bremen Airport Long Good news in the travel chaos at Germany’s airports: Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) sees itself well prepared for the increased demand. “DFS is building capacity and…
Why the suitcase chaos is getting bigger
Frankfurt Thomas Steckenborn wanted to fly from Frankfurt to Tivat in Montenegro at the beginning of June. But the plane had to be evacuated again because the pilot’s headset was…
SPD wants to nationalize passenger controls again
“The experiment, with which sovereign aviation security tasks were placed in private hands decades ago, has finally failed,” said the SPD rapporteur for passenger rights in the Bundestag’s legal committee,…
6000 flights canceled – no end in sight?
Passengers at Frankfurt Airport There will continue to be problems in air traffic in the coming weeks. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Michael Niggemann is a lawyer and likes to stick to…
Gebr. Heinemann is selling more duty-free goods again
Dusseldorf Long queues, canceled flights, lost luggage: There are only a few people who can enjoy the chaotic conditions at the airports. One of them might be Max Heinemann, head…
What the Dax companies say about the travel chaos
Frankfurt, Dusseldorf Germany’s large companies complain about the traffic chaos at airports and the limited availability of rental cars. This is the result of a Handelsblatt survey of the 40…
If you want to fly, you have to be friendly
The author Tillmann Prüfer is a member of the editor-in-chief of “Zeit-Magazin”. If you want to get out of Germany these days, you have serious problems. Unfortunately, there are not…
More and more overtime at German airports
The number of overtime hours has increased drastically among civil servants working at German airports. This emerges from a response from the Federal Ministry of the Interior to a request…
Kühne increases at Lufthansa
Lufthansa jet approaching Frankfurt Airport The logistics entrepreneur Klaus-Michael Kühne has acquired Europe’s largest Arline Group and is now the largest single shareholder. (Photo: IMAGO/Arnulf Hettrich) Frankfurt Klaus-Michael Kühne uses…