Eurowings

Lufthansa’s LCC Eurowings may hire 130 flight attendants for the summer 2021 season after reaching an agreement with trade union Verdi.

Eurowings is taking over a route left without service following the closure of SunExpress Deutschland.

Eurowings expects that demand from leisure and visiting-friends-and-relatives (VFR) travelers will drive the recovery and so plans to expand its offering to these customers.

Fifteen vacation destinations are being added to Lufthansa’s network from Frankfurt for the summer 2021 season.

Lufthansa's LCC steps in to offer flights from DUS to the vacation destinations in Greece, Portugal and Spain.

Lufthansa LCC subsidiary Eurowings—taking advantage of Ryanair’s base closure at Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) in Germany—plans to take over up to 95% of the routes that have been operated by the Irish LCC.

Ryanair Group’s Austrian subsidiary Lauda faces an “existential crisis” with its main base in Vienna expected to close before the end of the month, group CEO Michael O’Leary has warned.

More European airlines have outlined how they intend to rebuild their networks over the coming weeks after the mass fleet groundings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

German regional carrier Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (LGW) filed for self-administered insolvency April 22 after it lost its only wet-lease contract with Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings.

Lufthansa is to permanently decommission more than 40 aircraft including six Airbus A380s, reduce Eurowings’ long-haul business and scrap its Germanwings brand.

Lufthansa has revealed when it will relocate its operations to the long-delayed Berlin Brandenburg Airport.

This week: Calgary to join Eurowings’ long-haul network; Alitalia to end service to Santiago, Chile; and Frontier Airlines further increases its presence at Ontario International.

This week: Eurowings is adding a new destination in Poland to its network; EGYPTAIR plans to launch scheduled service between Sharm el-Sheikh and London Gatwick; and AirAsia X hopes to stimulate demand between Kuala Lumpur and Ahmedabad.

Vienna Airport is on course for another record year of passenger traffic, although joint chief executive and chief operating officer Julian Jäger expects the growth to level out as a result of further consolidation in the European market.

Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary Eurowings will continue flying US routes next summer as part of a transatlantic expansion from its hubs in Munich and Frankfurt.

Senior network planners from over 125 of the world’s leading airlines will be accepting meeting requests when scheduling opens on Wednesday 10 July.

Eurowings is to refocus its network away from long-haul markets to concentrate on short-haul European routes from its core bases in Germany.

Carriers from across the globe will be attending the leading route development forum to negotiate their network strategy.

This week: Eurowings heads into Eastern Europe; Air Transat receives first A321LR; Adelaide Airport reports international growth; Volotea to grow its fleet and more.

Eurowings is cutting capacity growth this year as intense competition in the European short-haul market continues to bite.

Europe’s strong airlines will get stronger and the weak will get weaker as consolidation in the region continues and small carriers see pressure on yields intensifying.

This week: El Al Israel Airlines adds more North American points; Hainan Airlines to open Shenzhen - Rome route; and Eurowings schedules Las Vegas service.

The region’s largest route development forum will provide attendees with unmatched insight into the critical drivers shaping the future position of several leading airlines.

We profile Eurowings, the German low-cost airline owned by Lufthansa Group.

This week: Thai AirAsia is adding its third Thailand-Vietnam connection; Eurowings is to open a new route from the Routes Europe 2019 host Hannover; and Southwest is set to begin flights to Hawaii.