Company Watch - Lufthansa Group.For more company news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Jul 3, 2006 Lufthansa said it is opposing plans by Deutsche Flugsicherung The Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) is the company in charge of air traffic control for Germany. , Germany's air navigation services provider, to increase user charges by 13% in 2007. "Our goal is a cut in fees per flight," an airline spokesperson told Reuters. DFL DFL Deutsche Fussball Liga (German Soccer League) DFL Democratic-Farmer-Labor (political party in Minnesota, to which state Democrats belong) DFL David Florida Laboratory has lowered user fees in each of the last three years. Jun 28, 2006 Lufthansa Technik will provide Total Component Maintenance and Total Engine Support packages to ATA Airlines for 10-year terms in what is its second largest deal with a US carrier. The TCM (1) (Trellis-Coded Modulation/Viterbi Decoding) A technique that adds forward error correction to a modulation scheme by adding an additional bit to each baud. TCM is used with QAM modulation, for example. agreement covers more than 3,200 part numbers on three 737-300s, 25 737-800s, 20 757-200s/-300s and four L-1011-500s. The power-by-the-hour contract also includes a sale and leaseback sale and leaseback The sale of a fixed asset that is then leased by the former owner from the new owner. A sale and leaseback permits a firm to withdraw its equity in an asset without giving up use of the asset. Also called leaseback. of ATA's existing inventory to LHT LHT Long Haul Trucker (bicycle) LHT Long Holding Time LHT Long Haul Transmission LHT Lord High Treasurer LHT Low Harmonic Technology (Siemens) LHT Long Haul Terminal (Alcatel) . The exclusive engine deal is a power-by-the-hour agreement and covers CFM56-7s powering ATA's 737-800s. LHT also will provide access to spare engines. Value of the agreements was put at more than $100 million. Jun 29, 2006 |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion