Martina Groenegres

More Flights from Salzburg: Lufthansa Increases Frequencies to #Frankfurt Starting summer 2025, Lufthansa will operate up to five daily flights between Salzburg and Frankfurt. This route is crucial for #Salzburg, as it provides a direct link to Germany’s financial hub and access to a vast range of onward destinations within the Lufthansa network. This increase marks a significant milestone for Salzburg’s economy, supporting local businesses, industry, and tourism. The added flights enhance international connectivity and improve air freight options through shorter transfer times. A major boost for the regional economy and global reach! Timetable of the new service: Salzburg - Frankfurt 08:20 09:25 Daily Frankfurt - Salzburg 06:45 07:45 Daily #SZG #lufthansa #travel #connections #teamSZG Salzburg Airport - W. A. Mozart Lufthansa Group

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As Boeing delays over 40 new aircrafts delivery Lufthansa’s Core Airline Faces New economic Challenges Carsten Spohr Lufthansa Group CEO, revealed on Monday that the core airline is currently the group’s “problem child.” The airline is struggling due to delivery delays and rising operating costs, which have placed it at a disadvantage compared to regional competitors. The entire Lufthansa Group—which includes Austrian Airlines , Swiss International Air Lines Eurowings and Brussels Airlines —has felt the pressure, with shares down 10% over the last six months according to Reuters With rising costs impacting profitability, the financial situation remains fragile. As Lufthansa faces these challenges, the road ahead will require decisive strategic actions to regain momentum and maintain its position as a global leader in aviation facing Middle East carriers. #AviationIndustry #Lufthansa #BusinessChallenges #CarstenSpohr #AirlineNews T4EX

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🇩🇪 German fall travel demand grows to long-haul destinations 📊 🌏✈️ According to Deutscher Reiseverband (DRV) latest report on the German market, 78% of Germans who took long holiday trips in 2023 travelled abroad, a figure that gives a sense of the significance of this outbound market, also strong during autumn. As reported by fvw, based on our #travelintelligence, we unveiled some of the destinations that are becoming increasingly popular for German 2024 autumn getaways, and found out that long-haul destinations, particularly in the Middle East and Asia are gaining ground, even though the Mediterranean destinations are still the majority choices. 👉 Learn more about German emerging trends for autumn 2024 trips (In German) https://lnkd.in/dn6SCYBE #travel #tourism #dataintelligence #TravelTechnology #Mabrian #Germany #Reise #Deutschland

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Latest passenger data (June) from Flughafenverband Adv in Germany reveals that demand at the country's airports is still just over 15% below pre-pandemic levels. None of the top eight airports (comprising Fraport AG's Frankfurt, Munich Airport International, BER - Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Düsseldorf Airport, Hamburg Airport, Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport and Hannover Airport) has reached at least 90% recovery. Incidentally, the passenger figure for June for Stuttgart will be particularly satisfying to autogeeks (is that a thing?) of a certain age. Those airports that have recorded significant growth are the smaller regional/secondary airports such as Flughafen Memmingen (FMM), Weeze Airport, Flughafen Frankfurt -Hahn Gmbh and Münster/Osnabrück Airport (FMO). Where growth has occurred it is primarily due to Ryanair and Wizz Air. Analysis by AIR SERVICE ONE of Cirium schedules data shows that the leading airlines in June by seat capacity were (total seats, change versus June 2019): - Lufthansa (6.52m, -19%) - Eurowings (2.83m, -12%) - Ryanair (1.93m, -20%) - Condor Flugdienst GmbH (1.09m, -8%) - SunExpress (921k, +55%) - Wizz Air (540k, +8%) - easyJet (526k, -65%) easyJet now serves just three airports in Germany compared with 11 in June 2019. All six domestic routes it operated from Berlin TXL are not operated from the new(ish) Berlin airport.

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Eurowings is significantly expanding its range of attractive direct destinations from BER: In the 2025 summer flight schedule, travellers can choose from 42 attractive destinations via Germany’s largest holiday airline. The Lufthansa subsidiary, in particular, is expanding connections to popular holiday regions in southern Europe: For the first time, Eurowings will be flying from BER to Bilbao, Corfu, Faro and Jerez de la Frontera. Newcastle in England’s north-east is a further addition to the programme. BER - Berlin Brandenburg Airport Eurowings Aletta von Massenbach Jens Bischof https://lnkd.in/ejXu3_dg #aviation #AviationNews #50skyshades #DailyNew #airport #airline #grows #capital #region #42destinations #year2025 #summer #flight #schedule #airTravel #passengers #flying #routes

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Great News: The EU Commission has given the "green light", and ITA Airways will soon become part of the Lufthansa Group family. The legal closing is expected to be finalized in the fourth quarter of 2024. Until then, ITA Airways and Lufthansa Group remain competitors. We will communicate more details as soon as the formalities have been fully completed. We are getting ready for a joint take-off and plan on collaborating closely together on several different initiatives, such as lounge access, loyalty programs, customer service, and airport touchpoints. #AviationNews #LufthansaGroup #ITAAirways #Aviation #AirlineIndustry #BusinessGrowth #EUCommission #TravelIndustry #CustomerService #LoyaltyPrograms #Collaboration #CorporateNews

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For the last 15 years Austrian Airlines has consistently accounted for between 45% and 50% of seat capacity at Flughafen Wien - Vienna Airport. However, competition to be in the top 5 airlines at Vienna has been intense over the last decade. Between 2010 and 2016 Austrian's nearest rivals were local carrier niki and its parent company airberlin. When both collapsed in 2017 there was considerable upheaval. In 2018, Vienna's second and third biggest airlines were Eurowings and easyJet who both saw opportunities to become the leading low-cost airline at the airport. However, niki successor LaudaMotion GmbH and soon to become partner Ryanair, as well as Wizz Air had other ideas. Post-pandemic, Eurowings and easyJet decided to focus their network recoveries elsewhere, leaving Europe's two leading ULCCs to slug it out for second place. In 2024 the fight seems to have been won by Ryanair, offering three times as many seats as Wizz Air. Vienna's top 10 airlines in 2024 are now rounded out by Eurowings (in fourth place), Turkish Airlines/AJet, Emirates, Pegasus Airlines, British Airways, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Swiss International Air Lines. Lufthansa now ranks just 17th. New/returning airlines at the airport this year include Hainan Airlines and All Nippon Airways. German leisure carrier Condor Flugdienst GmbH which had returned to the airport in 2022 after an absence of four years, again suspended operations at the end of October 2023, though will return in S25 with service to Frankfurt.

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A Strong 2024 at #BER ✈️ Aletta von Massenbach, CEO of BER - Berlin Brandenburg Airport GmbH, sums it up: “Overall, we are satisfied with the development of traffic in 2024. Travel connections and passenger numbers at BER Airport have developed well despite a difficult market environment – further growth in 2025 depends heavily on the general conditions for air traffic in Germany. We need competitive location conditions in Germany for the important further expansion of connectivity for all travellers.” 2024 Highlights: ✈️ 25.5 million passengers – +10.4% compared to 2023 📍 192,000 flight movements – +8.5% growth 📦 44,300 tons of air cargo – +30% compared to the previous year The busiest day of the year was September 27, 2024, with 99,579 passengers, including many participants of the Berlin Marathon. 👉 More details in the first comment. #AirportRegionBB #Aviation #Connectivity

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Swiss International Air Lines has maintained a steady 50% to 55% of seat capacity at Zurich Airport Ltd for the last decade. Add in the growth of its leisure subsidiary Edelweiss Air AG and its parent company Lufthansa, and Lufthansa Group has maintained a very healthy 65% to 70% of capacity at Europe's 19th busiest airport. AIR SERVICE ONE analysis of Cirium schedules data shows that after Swiss, Edelweiss Air, Eurowings and Lufthansa the other airlines that make up the airport's top 10 in 2024 are easyJet (up from ninth in 2023), British Airways, Chair Airlines, Emirates, Austrian Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. That's right - no sign of Ryanair or Wizz Air, neither of whom have ever served the airport. However, Vueling Airlines and Pegasus Airlines do serve Zurich. This year has seen Zurich welcome EGYPTAIR from Cairo and Air India Limited from Delhi, as well as the return of TUNISAIR from Djerba and Tunis.

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Condor Flugdienst GmbH just resumed flights from Fraport AG's Frankfurt to both Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited's Bangkok and Phuket airports. AIR SERVICE ONE analysis of Cirium schedules data reveals that Europe to Thailand seat capacity in September 2024 is still 14% down versus September 2019. For comparison Europe-Japan is down 24%, South Korea down 17%, Vietnam down 17%, China down 8%, Malaysia down 5% and Singapore down 1%. In total, 19 European airports have non-stop flights to Thailand with iGA Istanbul Airport leading the way with 14% of capacity, followed by Heathrow, Frankfurt, Moscow SVO and Zurich Airport Ltd. In terms of airlines, Thai Airways International accounts for 48% of seats followed by Turkish Airlines, Aeroflot, EVA Airways Corp. and Austrian Airlines. Since 2019, British Airways and Norwegian have stopped serving Thailand. However, the former is set to resume flights to the Thai capital from the end of October with flights from London Gatwick rather than Heathrow.

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🌟 Exciting Update 🌟: The @EU Commission has given the green light, and ITA Airways will soon become part of the Lufthansa Group family, and the Star Alliance. ✈️🌍 The legal closing is expected to be finalized in the fourth quarter of 2024. Until then, ITA Airways and Lufthansa Group will continue to operate as competitors. We will share more details as soon as the formalities are fully completed. 📝🔜 We are preparing for a joint take-off and planning to collaborate closely on various initiatives, including lounge access, loyalty programs, customer service, and airport touchpoints. 🛫🤝 #AviationNews #LufthansaGroup #ITAAirways #ExcitingTimes #Travel #AviationIndustry #Collaboration #CustomerExperience #LoyaltyPrograms #AviationFamily #CorporateNews #lufthansagroupeastafrica

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A number of travel agencies use the Amadeus Bistro Portal price comparison and offer system for hotel-only searches, but then book the stays via other computer reservation systems such as BEWOTEC GmbH or Sabre Corporation. Ljiljana Budalic from Amadeus Leisure IT is now addressing concerns that this might no longer work in the future. #amadeus #bistroportal #sellingplatformconnect #travelagencies #traveltech

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Together with Hong Kong International Airport, Lufthansa Group to launch Upstream Check-In Service. Since September 30th , Lufthansa Group has offered its guests the innovative Upstream Check-In (UCI) service in 8 ports of the Greater Bay Area. This service enables passengers who fly with Lufthansa German Airlines and Swiss International Air Lines to complete immigration, check-in and baggage tagging in 8 ports, namely 6 ferry ports and 2 land ports, before heading to the SkyPier, located in the restricted area of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). Seamlessly, passengers can then proceed directly to the boarding gates without clearing immigration and customs procedures in Hong Kong. Importantly, Upstream Check-In is also available for Lufthansa Group’s passengers who hold flight tickets from Europe to Greater Bay Area. With UCI, passengers can collect the baggage at the final destinations, as no baggage reclaim, and further airline check-in, are required. The minimum connection time at the HKIA SkyPier Terminal is then shortened from 110 minutes to approximately 80 minutes. Mr. Frank Naeve, Lufthansa Group Senior Vice President Sales & Distribution attended today’s launch ceremony in Shenzhen Shekou Port and explained, “Our group is heavily investing in modernizing our fleet with the acquisition of state-of-the-art long-haul aircrafts. But that’s not all, we are working continuously to improve our customer experience including the opening of new lounge facilities, offering new catering concepts as well as enhancing the digital experience for our customers. Overall, we are investing more than € 2.5bn in Product & Services by 2025.” Lufthansa Group aims to further enhance the passenger experience and expects to serve around 20,000 passengers with this new service on yearly basis. Mr. Felipe Bonifatti, newly appointed Vice President Asia Pacific & Joint Ventures East, Lufthansa Group as well as Ms. Qian Chen, Senior Director Sales Greater China, Lufthansa Group also attended the kick-off ceremony of the UCI launch in Shenzhen. Currently, Lufthansa Group offers direct flights from Hong Kong to Frankfurt, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland both on daily basis. To enjoy the convenient UCI service and purchase a ferry ticket, passengers are required to present valid air tickets of Lufthansa Group with confirmed seats departing from HKIA. The 8 ports in Greater Bay Area includes Zhongshan, Shenzhen Shekou, Guangzhou Nansha, Dongguan Humen, Guangzhou Pazhou, Macau Maritime Ferry Terminal and Hong Kong–Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Zhuhai Port, Hong Kong–Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Macau Port. Furthermore, Lufthansa Cargo has strong presence in South China as well and has added Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport to its freighter network and serviced it twice a week since this July. Credit : World Travel News 2024-12-02 .

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We are thrilled to see our innovative technology powering DERTOUR Group’s latest offering! Dertour has integrated a new state-of-the-art tool into their Travel Compass, enabling travel agencies to seamlessly plan and personalise car and motorcycle round trips. This tool, developed with #Nezasa, leverages our TripBuilder platform to deliver unparalleled customisation with ease. Why this project excites us so much: ✨ Tailored Travel Experiences: Travel agencies can customise round trips to match their customers' preferences. From modifying existing routes to crafting unique journeys from scratch. 🏨 Diverse Accommodation Options: The tool offers a wide range of accommodation choices, ensuring every traveller’s needs are met along each segment of their trip. 🗺️ Comprehensive Planning: With distance calculations and the ability to book on-site tours and activities in advance, planning daily routes has never been easier. 🌐 Global Reach: While the tool currently includes route suggestions for popular destinations like the USA, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Namibia, and Oceania, it allows for individual planning worldwide, with more destinations to be added soon. https://hubs.li/Q02DxpjK0

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Many thanks to AIR SERVICE ONE for featuring the recent launch of Sundair’s base at Münster/Osnabrück Airport (FMO). The German carrier operates 7 departures per week to Canary Islands (Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife) as well as to Hurghada during W24.   Also highlighted is FMO’s growth in traffic: In 2023 the airport handled 991,471 passengers, matching its pre-Covid levels of 2019 and exceeding the German average recovery rate. During the first three quarters of 2024 the airport experienced further strong growth, exceeding the one million passenger mark already (passenger growth of +30.2% vs. 2023 and +34.9% vs. pre-pandemic 2019).   #FMO #Aviation #Airlines #Airports #Sundair https://lnkd.in/edNeiu65

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