CEO Carsten Spohr addresses Lufthansa's 2026 AGM with a model of an ITA Airways jet in the foreground.
Credit: DPA Picture Alliance/Alamy
It took Lufthansa several years to finally gain control of an Italian airline. Actually, more than several. When the old Alitalia was still flying, then-CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber was hoping back in the 2000s for board approval to buy the carrier, which had been loss-making for decades. He was stopped...
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