Lufthansa ! LH ! DLH !

The EC said its initial investigation found that the merger would lead to a monopoly on service from Brussels to Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich and substantially reduce competition on BRU-Berlin Tegel. It also expressed concerns about flights to Zurich and Geneva (ATWOnline, Jan. 7).

Lufthansa proposed remedies on Jan. 5, European competition authorities confirmed, but added they were not "sufficiently clear-cut" to alleviate its doubts.

The Commission has until June 10 to take a final decision.

Lufthansa could make Milan's Malpensa Airport part of its hub network in the longer term as it bulks up its presence in Italy, board member Karl Ulrich Garnadt said on Wednesday.

"Malpensa is the right choice for us for our build up in Italy. The possibility is there to develop the airport as a hub," Garnadt said at a presentation of Lufthansa's new Italian unit.

Garnadt said the group is considering further network expansion in Italy and did not rule out operating a connection between Milan's Malpensa and Rome's Fiumicino airport.

The lucrative route between the country's business capital, Milan, and political capital Rome is dominated by Alitalia, which operates these flights from Milan's Linate Airport -- nearer the city centre than Malpensa.

Garnadt said Lufthansa might reconsider an appeal to European Union antitrust authorities over the Linate-Rome connection.

Garnadt said the group could be interested in the slots at Malpensa that Alitalia has relinquished.

"Alitalia has reduced its capacity at Malpensa and has no intention to change its offer at the airport. This automatically releases slots," Garnadt said.

He said Lufthansa will invite its Star Alliance partners to fly into Malpensa "as a gateway into Italy".

(Reuters)

January 29, 2009

Lufthansa still plans to invest in acquisitions to be ahead of the game when the global economic crisis ends, supervisory board Chairman Juergen Weber said.

"We will concentrate on Europe for now," he told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview published on Thursday.

Lufthansa is currently taking a breather after an acquisition spree last year, in which it set out plans to buy Brussels Airlines and Austrian Airlines, cutting the number of large independent airlines in Europe

Scandinavian airline SAS is a potential target, while Spain's Iberia could become available in the longer term if its merger talks with British Airways come to nothing.

"If the conditions are right, SAS will become interesting for us," Weber told Frankfurter Allgemeine.

Lufthansa in 2008 carried around 57 million passengers, making it Europe's biggest airline in passenger volume terms.

In the fiscal year to March 2008, Air France carried 51.7 million passengers, and BA, Europe's third-largest carrier, had 33.1 million passengers.

Demand for flights has eased as companies cut back their spending on business travel. Weber said the crisis was starting to affect non-business travellers, many of whom will cancel holiday plans this year.

Around the world, airline passenger numbers are expected to slip 3 percent in 2009, more even than the 2.7 percent decline posted in 2001 after the September 11 hijacked plane attacks frightened travellers away, according to the International Air Transport Association.

"I don't even think a decline of 5 percent can be ruled out. But that would be a horror scenario," Weber said.

He said Lufthansa would absorb capacity on routes that other airlines were abandoning. Many airlines have dropped routes from their schedule or reduced the frequency of some flights to ensure they fill their planes.

"Based on our strong impression that Lufthansa is able to react actively and very flexibly to weaker demand patterns during the worldwide recession, we expect lower margin erosion overall compared to its peer group," DZ Bank analyst Robert Czerwensky said in a note on Thursday

alain57 a écrit:bon Sevrien je doit reconnaitre que vous tirer plus vite que mon ombre.....ou vous lisez dans ma pensé..

merci pour la réponse anticipé....

vous avez vu la démarche pour obtenir un AOC ( je suppose que cela n'a rien a voir avec le vin..!!! ) Italien pour LH Italia..??? pour les liaisons international aux départ de l'Italie. une pierre de plus dans le jardin d'AF-KLM.

Lufthansa slams aid to Airbus clients: report
BERLIN, Jan 30, 2009 (AFP)A senior Lufthansa executive has attacked Franco-German plans to help struggling clients of aerospace giant Airbus as a distortion of competition, the Financial Times Deutschland reported Friday.
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Lufthansa critique l'aide franco-allemande aux clients d'Airbus
FRANCFORT (Allemagne), 30 jan 2009 (AFP)Le responsable des achats de flotte de Lufthansa a critiqué l'aide franco-allemande aux clients d'Airbus, estimant que cela va créer des distorsions de concurrence, rapporte le Financial Times Deutschland vendredi.
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Oui! En tant que puriste, ... il n'a pas tort ! Mais il oublie les méthodes :
-- adoptées 'in fine' par les banques japonaises pour le financement de la fabrication même des sous-ensembles du B787, assurée par les Cies. japonaises "d'externalisation" choisies par Boeing ;

-- utilisées par Exim Bank, Boeing Capital & GECAS pour aider les Cies. aériennes de la même façon que celle proposée par Airbus ;

-- les aides apportées par Boeing & GECAS, notamment, aux Cies; mises sous protection du "Chapter XI", pour maintenir les commandes passsées, & préparer les Cies., lors de la sortie de ladite protection du "Chapter XI", à se mettre en position de pouvoir passer ou confirmer des commandes chez Boeing & / ou GE, et faciliter le paiement des acomptes y afférents !

Le mégaphone qui croit tout savoir, ici, ne voit pas qu'il s'agit de "réciprocités", certes pas "idéales', mais nécessaires pour restaurer le "level playing field" que "Boeing, GECAS & Co." ont mis en morceaux!

Allemagne: la Lufthansa affirme ne pas avoir besoin d'aide de l'Etat

BERLIN, 31 jan 2009 (AFP)

Le patron de la compagnie aérienne allemande Lufthansa affirme dans la presse allemande à paraître dimanche ne pas avoir besoin de l'aide de l'Etat pour résister à la crise économique.

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Meanwhile, Lufthansa said it will start a detailed evaluation of the 787 and Airbus A350 XWB this summer. Nico Buchholz, VP of fleet planning for the German carrier, told an Aviation Week reporter that any decision on which plane to order likely won't be made this year.

alain57 a écrit:2600 employés de Lufthansa Cargo en temps partiel, du a la réduction du marché du fret.
en décembre 2008 la chute chez LH cargo et de 21,4 % par rapport a l'année précédente.

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xb70 a écrit:
Dans les mauvaises nouvelles , tu peux rajouter :

- qq heures de grève de leur Personnel de Cabine il y a quelques jours . En attendant le résultat de négociations

- l' amende sur l 'entente illicite tarification cargo , entente dont ils se sont auto-dénoncés ... . Amende sans doute provisionnée , mais il faut payer ces semaines à venir ...

Bref comme tout le monde !