Germanwings

Eurowings and Discover Airlines have firm strategies in place as City Airlines nears launch. But Lufthansa Group must invest in renewing its narrowbody fleet.

Lufthansa Group and pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit have signed a long-term collective agreement for passenger and cargo aircraft pilots.

Lufthansa is to permanently decommission more than 40 aircraft including six Airbus A380s, reduce Eurowings’ long-haul business and scrap its Germanwings brand.

Cologne Bonn Airport welcomes a total of 20 new destinations for its 2015 schedule, including ten new long-haul destinations operated by Eurowings, as well as four new airlines and ten new services.

The airline, part of the Lufthansa Group, has been forced to cancel a number of its domestic and European short-haul routes as a result of the walkout by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union which has failed to reach an agreement on working contracts for its members with the Lufthansa Group.

The international airport is based in Germany’s fourth largest city, and serves 9.5 million passengers per year, with a catchment of 17 million.

The Lufthansa Group has successfully transferred its Dusseldorf – Zurich route from Lufthansa to Germanwings.

At 04:00am on Friday, February 3, 2012, Budapest Airport aviation director, Kam Jandu, woke up to a call from the airport’s operations manager. Malev