Daily Memo: Lufthansa’s Main Pressure Points Remain Unresolved

Lufthansa AGM

CEO Carsten Spohr addresses Lufthansa's 2026 AGM with a model of an ITA Airways jet in the foreground.

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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...
Jens Flottau

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and leads Aviation Week Network’s global team of journalists covering commercial aviation.

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