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German Lufthansa AG (short: Lufthansa) is the largest German airline. Their seat is Cologne, their homeland airport is Frankfurt. The second spider of German Lufthansa is the airport Munich. After the authorized assumption of the Swiss the third and thus first foreign spider - Zurich - is certain. Regional stroke of the Swiss is Geneva. Lufthansa is initial member the star Alliance. It had 2005 91,364 coworkers.
Lufthansa belongs today to the largest air transport companies of the world. With its traffic capacities it occupies point places in international air traffic: In the year 2003 it carried most passengers of all IATA airlines in international traffic and occupied also in the freight place 1. In the year 2005 flew 51.3 million aircraft passengers with the airlines of the company (since 2003 belongs to also air Dolomiti). At Lufthansa's cargo was declining because of the weak economic situation the carried freight quantity. The airline transported 2005 1.736 million tons of freight. Extent of utilization was 65,0 % and thus 2.0 % with lower than in the previous year.
Major item: History LufthansaDie history of Lufthansa is divided into the period of the establishment up to the end of the third realm 1945 and the reestablishment into the 1950er years, when the restrictions of the allied ones were waived, first under the name "corporation for air traffic need "(Luftag), later, it then again into "German Lufthansa AG" was renamed.
"New "Lufthansa was created on 6 January 1953 in Cologne and took up on 1 April 1955 the regular flying operation. Before, on 17 September 1954 it acquired the rights of the use of a name of old "German Lufthansa AG - in liquidation "inclusive Kranich Logo and flag for 30.000 DM. German Lufthansa AG is not right successor (old) of Lufthansa. Lufthansa was until 1962 to nearly 100 % in national possession. 1966 were acted for the first time the Lufthansa share at the stock exchange. Until 1994 Lufthansa was the national airline of the Federal Republic of Germany. Then the public hand reduced its portion of over 50 % to only 34 % of the shares; since 1997 are completely denationalized Lufthansa.
To time operational fleet Lufthansa's of the company (inclusive. aircraft lease out) consists of 375 airplanes (conditions: 30. April 2006 after Web operational readiness level of Lufthansa), the fleet of Lufthansa passage builds itself up as follows:
The average age of the airplanes was to at the end of of 2003 at 8.4 years. http://konzern.lufthansa.com/de/html/magazin/50jahre/index2.html
Lufthansa will after information of the enterprise still in the year 2006 an extensive order of long and medium-haul aircrafts admits to give.
The fleet has an average age of 7.73 years
Many aircraft of Lufthansa are designated after German cities. Exception is a long-distance machine named "Gander/Halifax ", which was designated after two North American cities. The background for this is the situation of both cities and their airports on the standard air lane from Central Europe to North America. Here the airplanes on 11 September 2001 after the locking of the American and Canadian air space, which were the already so far over Atlantic, landed that a return flight was impossible to Europe.
Apart from passenger traffic Lufthansa with the following subsidiary companies is active in further business fields:
Also at directly enterprises connected with air traffic Lufthansa portions does not hold, altogether distributes itself these on more than 400 national and international societies. A more detailed overview is on Lufthansa Financials Site in the Internet (see Related links).
Besides Lufthansa is involved to 40% in the terminal 2 airport Munich. With their daughter and partner companies it has the exclusive right to use this 2003 opened terminals for up to 25 million passengers.
The flights of Lufthansa carry the contraction, and/or the IATA code LH and/or the number 220 as prefix of the ticket number, the I.C.A.O. code is placed in front however is DLH. With international connections the flights to Germany with odd numbers and the flights are designated abroad with straight numbers.
Lufthansa operates under the name Miles & More since 1993 one most extensive Vielfliegerprogramme.Seit January 2005 operates Lufthansa as well as Fraport Lufthansa roofridge Class terminal beside terminal 1 of the airport Frankfurt, a world-wide unique product, exclusively for roofridge Class of passengers and members HONE Circle (highest stage of the many flier program Miles & More), with exclusive Loungeangeboten, like restaurant, bar, bath landscape. The passengers are brought in sedans directly from this terminal to the airplanes. The moreover one exclusive Lounges within the range of the terminal 1 is available for the use for this clientele. Lufthansa did not threaten to however already shift several times their Homebase to Munich if the Frankfurt airport is more briskly developed. It is to be counted however on the fact that the most important LH stroke Frankfurt will remain. On the one hand Frankfurt lies central in Germany and Europe and is clearly better tied up to the different transportation network. In addition the Staralliance has already spiders in Zurich and Vienna, a third spider in Munich would be thus too near at the others and in sufficient quantity with passengers hardly to be filled. The decision the new A380 fleet completely in Frankfurt to station and the A380 maintenance-resounds there to build speaks clearly for the fact that this will remain the central air haven for the LH and the Staralliance in Germany.
Human right organizations criticize the airlines LTU, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines and other one in connection with the deportation of rejected asylum-seekers. This criticism ignores that after the air traffic law "§ 21, paragraph 2, sentence 3 an airline is obligated to carry everyone.
Sometimes Lufthansa is criticized also because of their outdated maintenance system in the Economy Class. Although in as well as all airlines on long-distance usual, German Lufthansa refuses persistently, individual, for example in the seat of the preceding endorser inserted inserting screens. Instead films and the like are pointed to central monitors, which however from each seat not to be seen to be able. In newer airplanes, as for example will however such a system for the Economy Class is inserted to the airbus A380. Also in other new airplanes, which already are in use, one finds into the Economy Class such screens.
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