It’s been over two weeks since the last ever Air Berlin flight landed on October 27th and anyone who has bought domestic tickets since then has almost certainly noticed the difference.
Passengers flying domestically are paying on average 32.5 percent more for short haul flights compared to four weeks ago, according to an analysis carried out by MyDealz.de. The shopping portal analyzed prices on 25 short and medium haul routes in October and again in November before coming to its conclusions.
Lufthansa is set to sign a deal to buy parts of Air Berlin, the failed German carrier. The deal was reported Thursday morning by the Rheinische Post and confirmed to Fortune by Lufthansa.
Germany’s second-largest carrier filed for bankruptcy in August after its main shareholder, Etihad, said it would not give further financial support.
German airline Lufthansa plans to hire more than 3,000 new staff in 2017, most of them flight attendants, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
Lufthansa Group airlines – Austrian, Swiss and Eurowings – are hiring more than 2,200 staff in total, it said. Lufthansa Technik is planning to recruit 450 new staff. 1,400 new jobs will be offered in Frankfurt and Monaco. 500 persons will work at Swiss, 200 at Eurowings and 100 at Austrian Airlines.
Lufthansa cabin crew and pilots have gone on strike several times over the last few years as the airline battles to reduce costs. Its cabin-crew union UFO said last month the latest talks over pay and working conditions had failed.
Lufthansa pilots in Germany have said they will extend strike action again until Saturday, this time targeting long-haul flights in a long-running pay dispute.The dispute has grounded tens of thousands of passengers and cancelled hundreds of flights.
By the end of Friday, an estimated total of 315,000 passengers will have been affected. Lufthansa’s executive management board member Harry Hohmeister said it was "not possible" to meet the pilots’ demand for a bigger wage rise.
Swiss carried 1.62 million people in August, an increase of 0.1% compared to the same month last year. The Swiss airline, controlled by the German Lufthansa, has increased by 9.6% in terms of seats / km compared to August 2015. As a result, the load factor declined by 3 percentage points to 86.8%: in July, had reached 87.9%.
Overall, the number of flights has remained unchanged at 13,285 in August, while traffic, expressed in passenger-kilometers flown, was up 6%, it said in a note today’s Swiss.
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