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Carsten Spohr, Lufthansa's CEO, called the March 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 incident, "the darkest day for Lufthansa in its 60-year history", when pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally flew an aircraft into a mountain, murdering 149 passengers. [48] Nonetheless, damage control by Spohr and his team was poor according to several sources.
In airline reservation systems, a record locator is an alphanumeric code used to identify and access a specific record on an airline’s reservation system. An airline’s reservation system automatically generates a unique record locator whenever a customer makes a reservation or booking, commonly known in the industry as an itinerary.
On 22 September 2010, Lufthansa announced an order for 48 new aircraft, several of them for Swiss. [75] In March 2013, Swiss ordered six Boeing 777-300ERs. On 12 March 2015, Swiss confirmed Lufthansa Group had ordered an additional three Boeing 777-300ERs for Swiss. [76] The 777s will be operated by, and leased back from, Swiss Global Air Lines ...
Originally designed and operated by airlines, CRSs were later extended for use by travel agencies, and global distribution systems (GDSs) to book and sell tickets for multiple airlines. Most airlines have outsourced their CRSs to GDS companies, [ 1 ] which also enable consumer access through Internet gateways.
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In 2000, Lufthansa Cargo was a founding member of the WOW Alliance, a global cargo airline alliance, but left in 2007 as it did not see any benefits for the future. In 2002 the special logistics company time:matters was founded, which was sold in the meantime, but is now again a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa Cargo. [6]
Eurowings GmbH is a German low-cost carrier [4] headquartered in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, [3] [5] and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group.Founded in 1996, it serves a network of domestic and European destinations and maintains bases at several airports throughout Germany, Austria, Kosova and the Czech Republic.
Additionally, the following airlines adopted Miles & More as their sole loyalty program despite not being owned by the Lufthansa Group: [1] Croatia Airlines; LOT Polish Airlines (since 2003) Luxair (since 2012) Furthermore, all member airlines of the Star Alliance, of which Lufthansa is a founding member, accept Miles & More memberships. [1]