The Star Alliance airline partnering group has continued to fare well and expanded its roster of members in recent years.  I wanted to take a look at the current members since Continental Airlines was just granted regulatory permission to join, making it the third US airline to be a Star Alliance member.  Their web site [...]

European regulators in Brussels today announced that Lufthansa Airlines of Germany has not convinced them that their acquisition of Austrian Airlines would not hurt competition on select routes between Germany and Austria. 

Lufthansa had to allay similar fears just last month when EU regulators were wary of the then proposed Lufthansa takeover of Brussel’s Airlines.  This [...]