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IATA commends baggage processes at Frankfurt Airport Lufthansa and Frankfurt Airport have been voted top of the class in terms of passenger baggage handling. This achievement is recognised in the “2009 BIP Best Airport Award” made by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which regularly examines the baggage handling performance of the world’s major international [...]

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Deutsche Lufthansa AG has posted an operating profit of 226 million euros for the first nine months of 2009. For the first time, this figure also includes the results of Austrian Airlines and bmi, who contributed a total of 28 million euros. The Group’s financial result therefore remained significantly below the previous year’s figure at [...]

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From the middle of next year, Lufthansa’s customers will once again enjoy the full freedom to communicate via the Internet above the clouds as the airline relaunches FlyNet, its on-board broadband Internet service. In addition, the new service will permit inflight data transfer over standard GSM/GPRS mobile networks. Thanks to FlyNet, Lufthansa passengers will soon [...]

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Lufthansa and Brussels are now offering codeshare flights on selected long-haul routes as part of their agreement to expand their cooperation and open up their networks to each other’s passengers. The first jointly operated long-haul services are Brussels Airlines flights from Brussels to Entebbe, Uganda and the new Lufthansa connection from Frankfurt to Libreville, Gabon. [...]

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Lufthansa’s passenger numbers declined in the first three months of 2009 under the impact of the downswing and the persistently difficult economic situation. The biggest German airline failed in the circumstances to match the previous year’s record figures. The passenger count in the first quarter was down by seven per cent to 12.1 million. Capacity [...]

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Simple, fast and flexible check-in with a mobile boarding pass that is sent to an Internet-enabled mobile phone – this service, which Lufthansa introduced almost a year ago on all domestic routes and on many of its European flights, has proved extremely popular among passengers. From to-day, Lufthansa passengers can also use a mobile boarding [...]

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