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Lufthansa has said it is cancelling over 2,000 additional flights at its Frankfurt and Munich hubs due to staff shortages. Its low-cost subsidiary, Eurowings, is also expected to cancel flights.
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Lufthansa sent an e-mail to its customers yesterday:
Letter from the Executive Board to Lufthansa Group passengers wrote: Two tough years of perceived and actual grounding lie behind us in aviation. All our Lufthansa Group employees have been wishing for nothing more throughout than to finally be able to welcome you back aboard our more than 750 aircraft.

Unfortunately, however, as the Northern Hemisphere summer begins and with global travel restrictions now almost all lifted, everyone involved in aviation worldwide is reaching almost daily the limits of the resources that are currently available. And the ramp-up of the complex air transport system from almost zero to now almost 90 per cent is clearly not proceeding with the reliability, the robustness and the punctuality that we would like to offer you again.

We can only apologize to you for this. And we want to be completely honest: In the coming weeks, as passenger numbers continue to rise, be it for leisure or business travel, the situation is unlikely to improve in the short term. Too many employees and resources are still unavailable, not only at our infrastructure partners but in some of our own areas, too. Almost every company in our industry is currently recruiting new personnel, with several thousand planned in Europe alone. However, this increase in capacity will only have its desired stabilizing effect by the time winter comes.

In addition, the ongoing war in Ukraine is severely restricting available airspace in Europe. This is leading to massive bottlenecks in the skies and thus, unfortunately, to further flight delays.

In the summer of 2023, we not only expect to have a much more reliable air transport system worldwide. We will be welcoming you back on board our Airbus A380s, too. We decided today to put the A380, which continues to enjoy great popularity, back into service at Lufthansa in summer 2023. In addition to this, we are further strengthening and modernizing our fleets with some 50 new Airbus A350, Boeing 787 and Boeing 777-9 long-haul aircraft and more than 60 new Airbus A320/321s in the next three years alone.

We promise you that our more than 100,000 Lufthansa Group employees will be doing everything humanly possible to provide you with the best possible air travel experience in the coming weeks, even under the current difficult circumstances. And they will be doing all this with a commitment that deserves the highest respect, not only from us on our Group Executive Board.

So on behalf of all our employees, I sincerely hope that you feel very welcome on board after your return, which is something we have all been keenly awaiting. We thank you for your loyalty; and we hope we may count on your understanding, too, should your journey not yet go quite as expected or planned.

We are doing our utmost to again offer you the quality, the punctuality and the reliability that you can rightly expect from your Lufthansa Group airlines as soon as we possibly can.

Stay with us.
Nothing new in there...
I don't really know why I got this: is it because I'm a Miles&More member (hence from the Lufthansa-group), or because I have flight planned with SN? Kinda strange to leave the bad news (cancellation of planned flights) to SN and let the friendly/apologetic e-mail come from Lufthansa...

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sn26567 wrote: 28 Jun 2022, 15:47 Lufthansa has said it is cancelling over 2,000 additional flights at its Frankfurt and Munich hubs due to staff shortages. Its low-cost subsidiary, Eurowings, is also expected to cancel flights.
Lufthansa is planning to cut more than 3,000 flights in the summer of 2022 due to staff shortages and ... strikes.
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Lufthansa has purchased a used B777F, MSN 35613, from DAE Capital (UAE). The aircraft will join its active fleet by early August 2022, operated by AeroLogic.
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Lufthansa has a new largest shareholder: Kuhne Aviation of Germany, which now holds 15.01% of the airline, up from 10% previously.
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The e-mail from Carsten Spohr, referred to by PttU, was probably sent to all M&M members, indeed. It is so preposterous especially when it mentions the dedication of all employees of the Group. What about the senior management's dedication ? Btw, off topic, M&M has become, imho, one of the worst, least generous loyalty or FFP in Europe.

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Lufthansa is cancelling an additional 2,000 flights from Frankfurt and Munich in summer 2022, citing staffing shortages at airports as well as industrial action and the ongoing pandemic.
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Lufthansa announces that the trade union ver.di called on the about 20,000 ground employees of the carrier to stage a 24-hour warning strike from 27 July until 28 July 2022.
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sn26567 wrote: 25 Jul 2022, 23:28 Lufthansa announces that the trade union ver.di called on the about 20,000 ground employees of the carrier to stage a 24-hour warning strike from 27 July until 28 July 2022.
Lufthansa said it was cancelling more than 1,000 flights ahead of a one-day walkout by ground staff scheduled for 27 July 2022.
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Is LH trying to use SN and/or its other affiliates to help mitigate the impact of the strike on their passengers? By re-routing them through their other hubs whenever possible, for instance?

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convair wrote: 27 Jul 2022, 02:20 Is LH trying to use SN and/or its other affiliates to help mitigate the impact of the strike on their passengers? By re-routing them through their other hubs whenever possible, for instance?
Potentially yes, if people are perhaps willing to travel first to BRU/ZRH/VIE

As it is the same ground staff in for instance FRA for LH as for LX/SN/OS, sadly most flights of the entire group are cancelled

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convair wrote: 27 Jul 2022, 02:20 Is LH trying to use SN and/or its other affiliates to help mitigate the impact of the strike on their passengers? By re-routing them through their other hubs whenever possible, for instance?
That would be a logical way to handle a strike although the unions wil not agree I'm sure.
The reality is when Brussels Airlines went on strike, Lufthansa came with the larger A321, so did Swiss and even Austrian but today (source Brussels Airport) all flights to and from Frankfurt and Munich, including Brussels Airlines flights, are cancelled.
Once again nothing was learnt from the past Sabena/Swissair saga

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BigJets wrote: 27 Jul 2022, 18:05
convair wrote: 27 Jul 2022, 02:20 Is LH trying to use SN and/or its other affiliates to help mitigate the impact of the strike on their passengers? By re-routing them through their other hubs whenever possible, for instance?
That would be a logical way to handle a strike although the unions wil not agree I'm sure.
The reality is when Brussels Airlines went on strike, Lufthansa came with the larger A321, so did Swiss and even Austrian but today (source Brussels Airport) all flights to and from Frankfurt and Munich, including Brussels Airlines flights, are cancelled.
Once again nothing was learnt from the past Sabena/Swissair saga
There is a difference between a handling agent strike and a cabin crew/pilot strike.

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Germany is withdrawing further from Lufthansa, as the Economic Stabilisation Fund (ESF) had reduced its stake in the carrier from 14.1% to less than 10%.

The ESF took a 20% holding in Lufthansa as part of a government bailout to keep the airline afloat through the COVID-19 pandemic and had previously reduced the share to 14.1%.

The ESF will sell its remaining shares by October 2023 at the latest.
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BigJets wrote: 27 Jul 2022, 18:05 That would be a logical way to handle a strike although the unions wil not agree I'm sure.
The reality is when Brussels Airlines went on strike, Lufthansa came with the larger A321, so did Swiss and even Austrian but today (source Brussels Airport) all flights to and from Frankfurt and Munich, including Brussels Airlines flights, are cancelled.
Once again nothing was learnt from the past Sabena/Swissair saga
Way too far off topic, but what on earth has this to do with Sabena/Swissair??? Do you have an axe to grind?

BrusselsAir could have flown an A380 into FRA today, but there was nobody to handle it so what would have been the use? It would just increase the number of passengers stuck in FRA/MUC.
I am quite confident that passengers from outside Germany have been rerouted through BRU/VIE/ZRH iso MUC/FRA today which is exactly what one would expect in this case.

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Lufthansa shareholder Klaus-Michael Kuhne (from the Kuhne+Nagel group) obtains approval from the Federal Cartel Office to increase his stake in the carrier from 10% to 15.01%.
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Lufthansa ground staff and management have reached a pay deal after the third round of negotiations.
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sn26567 wrote: 03 Aug 2022, 17:28 Lufthansa shareholder Klaus-Michael Kuhne (from the Kuhne+Nagel group) obtains approval from the Federal Cartel Office to increase his stake in the carrier from 10% to 15.01%.
Lufthansa investor Klaus-Michael Kuhne assumes that he will soon send a representative to the supervisory board of the airline, now that his company owns a 15% stake in the carrier.
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Lufthansa Technik Philippines recently officially opened a new hangar which supplements the existing seven maintenance lines by an additional three lines.

Lufthansa to begin taking delivery in the coming weeks of five B787-9s. The aircraft were originally destined for Hainan Airlines.
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Lufthansa pilots’ union has announced that it is starting the “legal and organisational preparations for strike action.”
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