Lufthansa - Definition


Lufthansa - Definition

Lufthansa Boeing 737

Lufthansa Airbus A300

Lufthansa Avro RJ-85

Lufthansa is the name of the largest German airline company, headquartered in Cologne. Their main base at Frankfurt International Airport in Frankfurt am Main which is also Lufthansa's primary traffic hub. The company has developed a second hub at Munich's Franz Josef Strau� International Airport.

Lufthansa is a founding member of Star Alliance, one of the world's major airline alliances. Currently, the Lufthansa Group operates more than 300 aircraft. It uses the IATA designator LH and the ICAO designator DLH.

Contents

4.1 Germany
4.2 Europe
4.3 Africa
4.4 Asia
4.5 North America
4.6 Latin America

5 External links

5.1 Data

History

The company was founded in 1926, following a merger between "Deutsche Aero Lloyd" (DAL) and "Junkers Luftverkehr" on January 6 of that year. The original spelling of the company's long name was Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft. The name Lufthansa derives from Luft (the German word for "air") and Hansa (the Hanseatic trade organization that ruled large parts of Northern Europe during the medieval times).

In the 1950s, the communist-controlled East Germany attempted to establish its own airline using the Lufthansa name, but this resulted in a dispute with West Germany, where the airline had been already re-established after the Second World War. East Germany instead called its national airline Interflug, which ceased operations in 1991. Lufthansa was also banned from flying into West Berlin until the demise of the communist regime.

Other businesses

In addition to its mainline operation, Lufthansa operates several hundred subsidiaries. The most important are:

Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Technik, one of the world's largest aircraft maintenance providers
Lufthansa CityLine, a regional carrier
Thomas Cook, a diversified travel services provider
Air Dolomiti, an airline based in Trieste, Italy
Delvag, an insurance company specializing in air transport
LSG Sky Chefs, the world's largest airline caterer, which accounts for one third of the world's airline meals
Lufthansa Flight Training, a major provider of flight crew training services to various airlines