Company Watch -- Lufthansa.May 21, 2007 Industry Must be more Selfish Says Lufthansa CEO. Airline bosses have mounted a robust defence of their industry in the teeth of sustained government and environmental pressure. Speaking at the tenth anniversary celebrations of the Star Alliance, Lufthansa chairman and chief executive, Wolfgang Mayrhuber, insisted that the industry had to become more 'selfish' to get its message across, despite relentless media and political hostility. May 16, 2007 Lufthansa Cabin Crew Wages To Rise 3.4 Percent. The wages of Lufthansa's 15,000 cabin crew will be increased by 3.4 percent from July, trade union Verdi said in a statement. The cabin crew's pay rises will be as high as for Lufthansa's 27,000 ground crew and administration personnel. Lufthansa's management had argued for lower pay rises agreed with UFO, another union representing cabin crew staff. May 14, 2007 Lufthansa confirmed its order for 15 Bombardier CRJ900s, valued at $584 million, plus 15 purchase rights. It announced its commitment last month. The order increases to 109 the number of firm orders placed by Lufthansa and its regional partners for CRJs and brings to 196 the total number of CRJ900s sold, including a firm order placed last week by Tatarstan Airlines for six plus four options. May 17, 2007 Lufthansa Systems said Spanair will implement its ProfitLine/Yield Rembrandt solution to optimize further its revenue management processes. It also said KLM extended its existing contract to support its flight planning processes with Lido OC for an additional five years. KLM also selected the Lido module LinTop to calculate single-point takeoff performances, replacing the paper-based charts it previously used. May 16, 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 our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. May 14, 2007 |
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