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Eurowings taps Lufthansa resources for new phase of growth

By Martin Cowen | March 8, 2017

Lufthansa Group's digital transformation continues apace, with its low-cost carrier Eurowings launching its MakeMyWay initiative today. Eurowings expects to handle 25 million passengers this year a Read More

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Lufthansa makes further video glasses trials at Frankfurt Airport

By Marisa Garcia | February 24, 2017

Lufthansa Airlines has brought Avegant Glyph video glasses to its Business Lounge in Terminal 1 at Frankfurt Airport, near Gate A26. The carrier will have ten pairs of glasses available at its Fran Read More

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Lufthansa allows third parties to sell seats via its API

By Martin Cowen | February 15, 2017

Lufthansa Group's Open API is now transactional, allowing authorised developers to sell airline tickets, earning a commission on any sales in the process. It covers Lufthansa, Austrian and Eurowing Read More

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Can Lufthansa bring a smile to passengers via digital personalisation?

By Linda Fox | January 11, 2017

Lufthansa has been developing a number of prototypes aimed at improving the customer experience at the booking stage, as well as the airport. The developments are part of the carrier's SMILE progra Read More

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Lufthansa flatbats DCC questions

By Martin Cowen | November 16, 2016

Lufthansa continues to talk the talk around the impact of its year-old distribution cost charge (DCC), although concrete details about the impact on its bookings and bottom line remain elusive. Las Read More

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Lufthansa brings Mildred to the chat table

By Linda Fox | November 11, 2016

Lufthansa is the latest to join the chatbot rush with its Mildred assistant on Facebook Messenger. The chatbot enables users to search for flights over the next nine months and claims to find the c Read More

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Running the gamut of innovation, corporate travel style

By Linda Fox | November 3, 2016

With a sector so full of policies and process, it's hard to imagine innovation and corporate travel in the same sentence. But, travel executives from the corporate world were recently forced to rea Read More

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Lufthansa promises to take personalised in-flight tech to higher level

By Kevin May | October 24, 2016

Contextual marketing platform Epteca is working with Lufthansa to bring customised messages and content to passengers before, during and after a flight. The agreement gives Lufthansa's BoardConnect Read More

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Lufthansa distribution goal at least two years away

By Kevin May | September 12, 2016

Lufthansa claims its vision for a radically overhauled new distribution strategy for the group could be in place by 2019. The airline is currently one year into what it says is a step-by-step appro Read More

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Lufthansa flies to Airbnb to fill premium economy cabin

By Linda Fox | July 26, 2016

Lufthansa has taken the interesting move of offering seats in its premium economy cabin on Airbnb. A page on the peer-to-peer accommodation platform says 'Luxury Awaits Above the Clouds' with the l Read More

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Google: time for the travel industry to see through its do-no-evil mantra

By Viewpoints | June 29, 2016

I believe that Google poses the biggest long-term threat to the profitability and growth of airlines, hoteliers and travel intermediaries that they have ever seen. Here’s why. NB: This is an opi Read More

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Lufthansa hits back after being reported to US regulator over surcharge discussion

By Kevin May | June 9, 2016

Three senators have urged US authorities to investigate "potential anti-competitive implications" of comments made by Lufthansa boss, Carsten Spohr. The trio - Republican Mike Lee (Utah) and Democr Read More

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Peakwork, the next-gen travel distribution company, has been on the ascent

By Sean O'Neil | May 24, 2016

Peakwork, a Düsseldorf-based travel technology company that builds distribution tools, has been expanding beyond its home region of Europe. In the past half-year, the 200-person company opened its Read More

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Sabre counters Lufthansa suit, saying Farelogix and Travelfusion are GDSs

By Sean O'Neil | April 19, 2016

In a court filing, Sabre denied all wrongdoing alleged by Lufthansa Group in a suit that the airline company brought last month. Sabre filed a counterclaim for breach of contract against the German Read More

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Why airports are slow to install beacons

By Benét Wilson | April 7, 2016

During a recent trip to Miami International Airport, I had the chance to try out the facility’s app, which is driven by beacons, or short-range, location-detection devices. Miami International is s Read More

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