Continental Airlines, based in Houston, has announced that on March 27, 2010, the airline will launch daily non-stop transatlantic service between their New York hub at Newark Liberty International Airport and Munich, Germany.
This service comes just after Continental is officially integrated into the Star Alliance and is further evidence of their full participation in the [...]
United Airlines, already serving Brussels, Belgium from their hub at Washington Dulles International Airport, will add a daily flight beginning March 28, 2010 from Chicago O’Hare.
The Brussels flight is time to connect well with Brussels Airlines, a new Star Alliance member after being acquired by Star Alliance founding member Lufthansa. Connections are available in Brussels [...]
Houston based Continental Airlines starts three new non-stop markets from their Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport today in recognition and support of their new entry into the Star Alliance that occurred earlier this week.
The three new routes will better match Star Alliance partners Air Canada, United and Lufthansa. Continental will augment connecting possibilities with Air [...]
TAM Airlines of Brazil today was inducted into the Star Alliance adding to existing members like United Airlines, US Airways, Lufthansa and their family of airline partners. Just last week, TAM entered into frequent flyer cooperation with Lufthansa owned bmi and Austrian Airlines in an effort to expand cooperation and integration with the global airline [...]
Now that bmi and Austrian Airlines are solidly in the Lufthansa family of airlines, TAM Airlines of Brazil has expanded their code sharing agreement with the European airlines to include Frequent Flyer cooperation. Now, passengers can earn and redeem miles on each others flights for their preferred program.
This agreement could pave the way for TAM [...]
The long awaited code-share between JetBlue and German airline Lufthansa has commenced today offering JetBlue customers in twelve JetBlue cities easier and convenient access to Lufthansa destinations like Tel Aviv, Frankfurt, Prague and Budapest. Connections are now available to more than 400 destinations in 100 countries vis the worldwide Lufthansa network.
Connections to Europe and beyond [...]
Lufthansa has announced they will expand some flights to and from the continent of Africa with their October 25 schedule change.
Flights to Nigeria from Frankfurt increase from the current 10 weekly to twice-daily or 14 weekly in October. The Frankfurt to Abuja flights will increase to once daily from the current 4 weekly with three [...]
JetBlue and Lufthansa of Germany today announced their intention to form a code-sharing agreement focusing on the JetBlue hub of New York JFK Airport. The application to the Department of Transportation calls for unlimited code-sharing between the two carriers on all of their flights.
This agreement would open up Europe and beyond to JetBlue customers offering [...]
The European Union regulatory agency has authorized the purchase of Austrian Airlines by Lufthansa today. There are conditions that have been agreed upon that Lufthansa must abide by to alleviate some competitive concerns primarily the directive to give up slots in Vienna to German destinations.
This agreement makes Lufthansa the leader in European airlines by far. [...]
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 [...]
The Department of Transportation (DOT) today approved Continental Airlines request to be excused from antitrust laws paving the way for its inception into the Star Alliance. Not many details were provided yet, and there were only a few small restrictions on certain routes.
This will give Continental the ability to dump Sky Team and join Star [...]
European Commission regulators have approved Lufthansa’s bid to acquire Brussels Airlines SN Airholding, Belgium’s national airline. Initially, later this summer, Lufthansa will purchase a 45% stake in the Belgian airline, with the remaining 55% available to Lufthansa in 2011 if all legal and route rights are secured. This tie up is a further step in [...]
Lufthansa, Germany’s airline, announced that it will cancel non-stop flights between Portland and Frankfurt, Germany this September. The airline has flown the route for six years, recently finding it suffering under greater losses due to the pervasive economic troubles worldwide. This is a huge loss for Portland which has seen a dramatic 30 percent drop [...]
