Europe’s Fastest-Growing Airline Eurowings Launches Service From New York’s JFK – Düsseldorf, Germany

·         Starting April 28, Eurowings will offer a six-times-weekly, non-stop service between New York and Düsseldorf, Germany

·         Airbus A340-300 aircraft features Eurowings’ all-new BIZclass

·         Flights have a codeshare with United Airlines, Lufthansa Group airlines’ joint venture partner for transatlantic flights

·         Passengers can connect in Düsseldorf to onward destinations due to vast Eurowings/Lufthansa Group European network

On April 28, 2018, Eurowings will begin its new, non-stop service between New York (JFK) and Düsseldorf, Germany. Eurowings, Europe’s fastest-growing airline and a Lufthansa Group subsidiary, operates long-haul flights from its Düsseldorf and Munich hubs, where it offers connections to other destinations throughout Europe.

“Eurowings is now the fastest growing airline in Europe and is also seriously ‘upping the ante’ on the long-haul,” said Oliver Wagner, Chief Commercial Officer at Eurowings. “New York is definitely a must for our ever-growing network, especially as we develop our fleet in Düsseldorf and expand our leading position in the region.”

Flight EW1101 will depart New York’s JFK at 10:30 p.m. and arrive at Düsseldorf airport (DUS) at 11:55 a.m. the next day (for departures on Saturdays: 6:55 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. respectively). Westbound flight EW1100 departs Düsseldorf at 11:05 a.m. and arrives at JFK at 1:25 p.m. (for departures on Saturdays: 2:35 p.m. and 4:55 p.m. respectively). Eurowings will operate a six-times-weekly service on the new route, flying every day except for Tuesdays.

The Airbus A340-300, which Eurowings will deploy on the JFK-DUS route, offers a three-class configuration that includes 18 BIZclass seats, 21 BEST seats and 261 Economy Class seats, for a total of 300 seats. The all-new BIZclass features a fully flat bed and a unique food and drink concept with specialty products such as poke bowls, craft beer from local breweries, apple crisps from a start-up in Hamburg and liquorice specialties by Lakrids from Denmark. BEST is Eurowings’ premium economy product, offering à la carte dining, preferred seating and extra legroom.

When arriving in Düsseldorf, passengers can take advantage of the extensive European network that Eurowings and other Lufthansa Group airlines provide, for their onward journey.

Düsseldorf lies at the center of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, one of the economic backbones of Germany with over 10 million inhabitants. The city serves as the capital of the North Rhine-Westphalia region and, as an international business center, hosts numerous trade fairs. Only a short ride away from the city of Cologne and Germany’s neighboring countries, Belgium and the Netherlands, it is also a perfect base for those who want to explore the broader region.

These flights, as well as all other Eurowings services between the U.S. and Europe, can also be booked through United Airlines due to a codeshare agreement.

About Eurowings
Eurowings, a Lufthansa Group subsidiary, is Europe’s fastest-growing airline. It specializes in affordable point-to-point flights within Europe and flies to long-haul destinations from its hubs in Cologne/Bonn, Munich and Düsseldorf. Summer schedule destinations in the U.S. in 2018 are New York’s JFK, Miami, Fort Myers, Las Vegas and Seattle. Eurowings currently employs approximately 10,000 people and operates more than 185 aircraft to over 160 destinations in 50 countries. The airline’s platform structure allows for its rapid development. For more information, visit www.eurowings.com or download the Eurowings app.

Lufthansa Strike: Special Flight Schedule In Effect For Friday November 25th

Yesterday evening, the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) pilots’ union announced another extension of the strike that has been ongoing since Wednesday.

Tomorrow, Friday, 25 November, all Lufthansa flights within Germany and Europe will be affected. A special flight schedule is in effect for tomorrow.

On Friday, 2,170 of the Lufthansa Group’s approximately 3,000 scheduled flights will be operating as planned. Tomorrow, on the third consecutive day of strikes, over 100,000 passengers will be affected due to the cancellations of 830 short- and medium-haul flights. Long-haul flights will be operating almost as scheduled, although there may be occasional cancellations of these flights resulting from the strikes on the previous days. In total, over 315,000 passengers have been affected by the cancellation of 2,618 flights.

Lufthansa is calling on the pilots’ union once more to develop a joint solution for the dispute through arbitration. Harry Hohmeister, Chief Officer Hub Management of Deutsche Lufthansa AG: “The status quo is that we pay our pilots significantly more than our competitors do. As members of the executive board, we are responsible for more than 120,000 employees and want to keep Lufthansa viable for the future. That will not be possible with a demand for a 20 percent increase in pay.”

The Group airlines Eurowings, Germanwings, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Air Dolomiti and Brussels Airlines are not affected by the strike. The pilots of Lufthansa Cargo have also not been called on to strike. Flights to and from Germany that are operated by Group airlines are proceeding as scheduled. Austrian Airlines and SWISS have also increased their capacity on flights to Germany by using larger aircraft for the time being.

Customers whose flights have been cancelled due to the strike have the one-time option to transfer or cancel their booking free of charge. In addition to this, all passengers with tickets for flights travelling to, from or through Germany by tomorrow have the one-time option to transfer their booking at no cost. For routes within Germany, there is also the option to exchange the flight ticket for a Deutsche Bahn voucher. On LH.com, passengers can find additional information under “Aktuelle Fluginformationen” (current travel information).

Lufthansa is doing everything in its power to minimize the impact of the strike on its guests. Thousands of hotel rooms have been booked in the Rhine-Main and Munich areas. For passengers who cannot enter Germany due to visa restrictions, Lufthansa has set up folding cots in cooperation with Fraport. Employees are providing passengers in the terminals who have been affected by the strike with beverages, snacks and telecommunication options. Lufthansa is notifying all passengers that have provided contact information in their customer profiles of any cancellations by e-mail or SMS.

Lufthansa is asking all its customers to take precaution by checking the status of their flight on LH.com before travelling to the airport. Customers in Germany can also call our free hotline at 0800 850 60 70 for information (free from German landlines).

The Germanwings Brand Is Dead, Long Live The Eurowings!

COLOGNE, Germany - It had been planned before the tragic loss of Airbus A320 D-AIPX on 24 March 2015. The Lufthansa brand Germanwings will cease to exist from this autumn. The budget division of the LH Group, short haul and long haul, will take on the established Eurowings name.

Thomas Winkelmann, CEO of Germanwings, will transfer to another subsidiary Austrian Airlines. Here he replaces current CEO Jaan Albrecht who is moving on to the Lufthansa/Turkish airlines joint venture SunExpress, long established as a charter/low cost operator of leisure services to and from Turkey.

Similarly, American low-cost carrier ValuJet suffered two fatal accidents, in these cases due to lax aircraft diligence. In what was in effect a reverse takeover in July 1997 ValuJet acquired Air Tran, and subsequently traded under that title, ValuJet being quickly forgotten. Air Tran disappeared as an airline in November 2014 following a buyout by Air South West.

For the past few weeks and months, Lufthansa has been busy changing flight codes so that by November the 4U code used by Germanwings will switch to Eurowings' EW code. In the case of flights between the UK and Germany, this has already happened but at Heathrow travelers still need to follow the Germanwings signs at T2.

Travelore Update: Lufthansa Strike Situation For Saturday March 21st

On the fourth day of strike action in a row, around half of Lufthansa’s scheduled long-haul and cargo flights will take off

Lufthansa Cargo will be able to operate 40 per cent of its flights
Another special flight timetable has been published on LH.com
Lufthansa notified more than 84,000 passengers by SMS and 34,000 by email

Despite the fourth day of strike action in a row, Lufthansa will be able to operate around half of its flights on Saturday, 21 March. However, around 20,000 passengers will still be affected by flight cancellations on Saturday. Even before the second day of strike action ended, the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots’ union (VC) had already called for another strike – the fourth this week. The four-day strike is therefore the longest to date in a series of twelve and will affect 220,000 passengers in total.

The strike on Saturday, 21 March will hit Lufthansa’s long-haul flights and Lufthansa Cargo’s flights. Lufthansa’s short and medium-haul flights and Germanwings’ flights will not be affected by Saturday’s strike.
More than 40 per cent of cargo flights scheduled for Saturday will operate. 86 of Lufthansa German Airlines’ 160 scheduled intercontinental flights will take off. All Germanwings, Eurowings, Air Dolomiti, Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines flights will also depart.
Lufthansa has published a special flight timetable on www.LH.com for the entire strike period. The special flight timetable for short and medium-haul flights today, Friday, 20 March will operate as scheduled.
Lufthansa will be concentrating on informing and assisting the passengers affected by the strike. The company has sent a total of 84,000 SMS and 34,000 emails since the strike began so that customers are notified as early as possible.

Lufthansa will also be supported by other airlines within the Lufthansa Group in order to get as many passengers as possible to their destinations. The other airlines in the Lufthansa Group will use bigger aircraft for their flights to and from Germany wherever possible. Lufthansa sincerely apologizes to its passengers for the inconvenience caused.

Passengers whose flights have been cancelled can rebook onto other flights at no charge under “My Bookings”. In addition, customers can already check in there for an alternative flight if possible. Passengers whose flights have not been cancelled and who are in possession of a ticket from Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines or Brussels Airlines for the period from 21 to 23 March 2015 to, from or via Frankfurt, Munich or Düsseldorf can rebook their flights on a one-off basis at no charge online under “My Bookings”.

Lufthansa Publishes Special Flight Timetable For Strike

Despite the third day of strike action in a row, the Lufthansa Group will once again operate three quarters of its 3,000 daily flights on March 20, 2015.

Long-haul flights will depart as scheduled again on Friday.

The Vereinigung Cockpit pilots’ union (VC) has called another strike on Lufthansa’s short and medium-haul flights for tomorrow, 20 March 2015 – the third strike in three days. Lufthansa will have to cancel 700 flights as a result of the VC strike, which is only 50 per cent of its total number of 1,400 flights scheduled for tomorrow. Nevertheless, 84,000 passengers in total will be affected by the strike-related flight cancellations. The company sincerely apologizes to its passengers for the inconvenience caused.

Unrelated to the VC strike, a further 90 flights with around 10,000 passengers will unfortunately have to be cancelled too, due to the strike by Italian air traffic controllers which will also take place tomorrow.

Lufthansa’s long-haul flights will not be affected by the strike on Friday. They will therefore operate largely as normal tomorrow. All Germanwings, Eurowings, Air Dolomiti, Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines flights will also depart as scheduled. In spite of the strike action announced, the Lufthansa Group will operate around three quarters of its 3,000 daily flights on 20 March 2015.

Lufthansa is doing everything it can to minimize the impact of the VC strike. The other airlines in the Lufthansa Group will once again use bigger aircraft for their flights to and from Germany wherever possible.

Lufthansa flights will operate largely as scheduled again on Saturday when the strike is over.

Passengers whose flights had to be cancelled due to the strike can rebook or cancel their flights at no charge. In addition, all passengers in possession of a ticket from Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines or Brussels Airlines for flights on 20 March 2015 to, from or via Frankfurt and Munich can rebook their flights on a one-off basis at no charge online under “My Bookings” with certain conditions. Tickets for domestic German flights can be exchanged for rail tickets.