Company Watch - Lufthansa Group.Apr 23, 2007 Lufthansa To Keep 'Cool Head' On Purchases. Lufthansa Chief Executive Wolfgang Mayrhuber Wolgang Mayrhuber is the current CEO of europe´s second largest airline Lufthansa. He´s engineer and succeeded Jürgen Weber in ???. said the carrier was ready to make acquisitions but added on Wednesday he would keep a "cool head" and that purchases must make sense for both sides. Apr 18, 2007 Lufthansa will launch twice-daily Munich-Linz flights in June aboard Augsburg Airways Augsburg Airways is a regional airline based in Augsburg, Germany. It is part of the Lufthansa Regional group and operates domestic and international services for Lufthansa. Its main hub is Munich International Airport. Bombardier DHC-9 Dash 8s. It already added a third daily flight to its MUC-Grax service. LH's summer schedule features 259 weekly flights between Germany and Austria. Apr 17, 2007 Lufthansa yesterday placed an order for 30 Embraer 190s and 15 Bombardier CRJ-900s. The company's supervisory board Supervisory board The board of directors that represents stakeholders in the governance of the corporation. approved of the deals ahead of the annual shareholder meeting to be held today in Berlin. Deliveries will start by the end of next year. The decision shows a strategic shift in Lufthansa's regional network. The airline is moving upwards in aircraft size, as the Embraer and Bombardier jets will replace smaller Avro RJ-85s and CRJ-200s. 50-seat operations are moved more to affiliates, such as Eurowings and Contact Air. Apr 18, 2007 Lufthansa Orders 45 Planes From Embraer, Bombardier Lufthansa said it will order 30 Embraer-190s and 15 Bombardier CRJ-900s to enlarge its fleet of regional aircraft, the German airline said on Tuesday. Apr 17, 2007 Lufthansa CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Sees Little Chance For Takeover Lufthansa does not plan to team up with a partner to buy Iberia and sees the Spanish airline's share price as excessive, its Chief Executive Wolfgang Mayrhuber said on Monday. Apr 16, 2007 Lufthansa Technik reached agreement with Virgin America Virgin America is a U.S. based low-cost airline that began service on 8 August 2007. The airline's stated aim is to provide low-fare, high-quality service for "long-haul point-to-point service between major metropolitan cities on the Eastern and West Coast seaboards". on a 10-year contract valued at more than $250 million to provide total material operations and line maintenance support for the San Francisco-based startup. Under the contract, 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) will establish central component and supplies depots at SFO SFO (in Britain) Serious Fraud Office and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of JFK and in the future will operate similar depots at other airports as VA's network grows. VA, which still is seeking its operating certificate, plans to operate a fleet of 31 A320 family aircraft. Apr 20, 2007 Lufthansa Technik leads MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. charge into India Lufthansa Technik said it will become the first international MRO provider to establish an Indian base when it opens a 20,000-sq.-m. facility outside Hyderabad at the end of next year. Apr 16, 2007 SunExpress, the joint venture between Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, is increasing its presence in Izmir, where it will employ 160 and base four aircraft during the summer schedule. It will operate 56 weekly flights to 11 Turkish cities and 40 to 11 international destinations. The Antalya-based carrier expects this year to breach the 3-million-passenger mark for the first time in its 17 years of operation, up from 2.6 million in 2006. It flies 10 Boeing 737-800s and four 757-200s and will add two more -800s in 2008. Apr 19, 2007 Lufthansa commits to 15 Bombardier CRJ900s, assumes Swiss Embraer order Claiming it "is assuming again the leadership in fleet modernization," Lufthansa yesterday announced a commitment for 15 CRJ CRJ Canadair Regional Jet CRJ Chiropractic Research Journal CRJ Commission for Racial Justice CRJ Cylinder Reduction Jumper 900s and took over commitments for 30 Embraer regional jets from Swiss International Air Lines Swiss International Air Lines (short: Swiss) is the principal airline of Switzerland operating scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Its main hub is Zurich Kloten Airport (ZRH). , now an LH subsidiary. 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