Star Alliance News
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG suspended almost its entire timetable for a full day as a strike over pay crippled operations at Europe’s second-largest airline and upset travel plans for 150,000 people.
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Just before sunset, Andrew Booth is sipping a gin and tonic aboard a boat carved like a golden phoenix in the moat surrounding Angkor Thom. One of several capitals of the Khmer empire (802 to 1431), Angkor Thom is part of Angkor Archaeological Park, a 400-square-kilometer Unesco World Heritage Site whose most famous attraction, Angkor Wat, draws some 2 million visitors a year.
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG said it’s looking at establishing a long-haul, low-cost venture to help sustain its market share on routes to Asia as rival operators syphon more and more traffic through hubs in the Gulf.
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All Nippon Airways Co., Japan’s largest airline by sales, is looking for acquisitions and partnerships in countries such as India and Thailand after raising $1.8 billion in a share sale last year for expansion.
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Thai Airways International Pcl said it plans to operate the Airbus SAS A380 superjumbo to London’s Heathrow airport following delivery of its fifth and sixth aircraft later this year.
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London Heathrow airport is close to completing a 2.5 billion-pound ($4 billion) building project that seeks to boost service standards and repel the challenge of fast-growing rivals to a hub with little scope for more flights.
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A combination of AMR Corp.’s American Airlines and US Airways Group Inc. promises to strengthen the U.S. industry’s ability to raise fares as the combined carrier eventually cuts back on flying.
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG said the disappointing returns of its Austrian Airlines subsidiary are reinforcing the carrier’s commitment to target partnerships over outright takeovers to help expand its route network.
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EVA Airways Corp. has applied to join the Star Alliance to expand its network, the Taipei-based Central News Agency said, citing president Chang Kuo-wei.
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG may seek deeper ties with Turkish Airlines to thwart competition from Gulf rivals and match European peers that already have Mideast partnerships, analysts said after Turkish media reports of talks on a merger.
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