Company Watch - Lufthansa.Oct 1, 2007 Lufthansa will launch weekly Saturday flights from Dusseldorf to Newquay Cornwall in June, Newquay Airport Project Director Chris Cain This article has multiple issues: * It does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by citing reliable sources. * It may need to be to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. revealed this week. Sep 28, 2007 Lufthansa has placed an order with Cessna for four Citation CJ1+ aircraft for its own pilot training programme. The airline[sup.1]s fleet training concept will be launched at the Lufthansa Pilot School in Bremen in January 2008. Capt Jurgen Raps, executive vice-president operations, Lufthansa, says that the programme will be more closely tailored to the specific flight operation needs of a large scheduled airline with a global network. "Our trainee pilots will thus have access to optimal training facilities that will enable them to make a seamless transition to an Airbus or Boeing cockpit." Cessna Citation The Cessna Citation is a marketing name used by Cessna for its lines of business jets. Rather than one particular model of aircraft, the name applies to several "families" of turbofan-powered aircraft which have been produced over the years. CJ1+ aircraft will be used. Sep 25, 2007 Lufthansa will increase ASKs by 5.7% on its global network for the winter season starting Oct 28, including the launch of new services to Orlando, Karachi and Lahore. Additionally, it is resuming five-times-weekly nonstop service to Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. . The winter timetable includes 13,272 scheduled flights scheduled flight schedule n → vol régulier scheduled flight schedule n → Linienflug m , 2.9% more than in the year-earlier period. Beginning Oct. 28 it will operate 12,208 weekly flights on domestic German and European routes representing a 4% increase in capacity and 1,064 long-haul flights to 42 countries on three continents for a 6.5% rise. Sep 24, 2007 Lufthansa Executive Board Chairman August Henningsen, "the new hall will make it possible to design engine overhaul production and processes so as to incorporate the latest thinking on these subjects. As a result and in conjunction with optimization of logistics, turnaround times (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time. for engines will be further reduced." Lufthansa Technik expects a 15% increase in productivity in large part owing to owing to prep. Because of; on account of: I couldn't attend, owing to illness. owing to prep → debido a, por causa de more flexible work rules agreed to by union representatives. The hall will be dedicated to its existing portfolio of engines at Hamburg comprising the PW4000, IAE IAE Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (France) IAE International Aero Engines IAE Impuesto de Actividades Económicas IAE In Any Event IAE Integrated Acquisition Environment IAE Inflatable Antenna Experiment V2500, CFM56 and GE CF6. Sep 24, 2007 Lufthansa Technik intends to invest close to [euro]50 million ($70.1 million) to build a new engine 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. shop in Hamburg that is expected to boost repair capacity from 320 engines per year currently to 400. Construction of the facility, which will have 15,000 sq. m. of floor space, is set to begin next month with the first engine overhaul planned for early 2009. Sep 24, 2007 Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new real-time service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status, delays, security wait times via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. |
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