Richard Weiss, Bloomberg
It's a good time to be running a European airline at the moment but as everyone in the industry knows it rarely lasts for long.
4 days ago
Andrew Sheivachman, Skift
If some form of a global electronics ban in airliner cabins is enacted, expect delays and disruptions as airports and airlines struggle to adapt.
1 month ago
P R Sanjai and Anurag Kotoky, Bloomberg
Although Qatar Airways plans on entering India with a domestic carrier, and many other carriers have acquired stakes in domestic Indian carriers, Lufthansa thinks fuel prices are too costly to make a similar move.
3 months ago
With fuel prices low, it's not as important for airlines replace older planes. But there's an exception. The Airbus A340s flown by Lufthansa have four engines, and they're considered gas guzzlers. For Lufthansa, replacing them with A350s makes a lot of sense, and it should help profitability in Munich.
4 months ago
Chiara Remondini and Brian Lysaght , Bloomberg
In a change from the past five years, investors have been running up the stock valuations of Air France/KLM, IAG, and Lufthansa Group, which have done acceptable jobs of negotiating a year marred by terrorism, air traffic disruption, and the economic uncertainty surrounding Brexit.
Reading between the lines, Lufthansa is saying its success in acquiring Brussels Airlines and Air Berlin and incorporating them into Eurowings means it may do additional takeovers and may compete with Wow and Norwegian on transatlantic routes.
Birgit Jennen, Benjamin Katz and Richard Weiss, Bloomberg
As Britain and the European Union divorce, aviation treaties need to be redone. Lufthansa's CEO Carsten Spohr warns that a plan needs to be made within a year or else there will be flight disruptions in 2019.
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Despite recent gains, Google Flights is still the price-comparison tool of tomorrow, and not today -- unless its scale makes the instant booking of flights a standard way of doing things.
Lufthansa is investing in direct booking connectivity with corporations (and the commercial initiatives to make them happen). The technological and commercial Tarmac being laid may pave the way for others, like IAG's British Airways.
We're reaching a critical point in European aviation. Too many airlines are flying too many routes and when the price of fuel hits a certain point things are going to have to change.
Benjamin Katz and Tom Lavell, Bloomberg
Lufthansa Group owns a low cost airline called Eurowings, but it does not have the same ultra low cost base as Ryanair. That probably gives Ryanair an advantage here.
5 months ago
Brian Sumers, Skift
Lufthansa Group has been more insulated from low-cost competition than most of Europe's legacy airlines. That's quickly changing, and the company needs to get its plans in order. It must find a way to turn its Eurowings operation into a more nimble competitor with lower costs.
