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Lets wait for this to play out, likely just at a wishful stage right now. Lots of regulatory issues for sure.
Rafat Ali, Skift | 12 years ago
It's a win-win when airlines find ways to work with rail lines for trips under three hours. The passenges get to their destinations faster and the airlines open up slots for use on longer routes.
Skift | 12 years ago
Lufthansa's sabre rattling and allusions to threats out of Iran sound like something spoken a decade or two ago. Whatever century its from, it sounds like the words of a man who's losing.
Chris Jasper, Kari Lundgren, and Olivia Sterns, Bloomberg | 12 years ago
There's nothing wrong with negotiating from a position of strength, but Lufthansa needs to make sure its insistence on getting its house in order first doesn't make it miss the bus -- err, plane -- on tying up Gulf alliances.
Alex Webb, Bloomberg | 12 years ago
This incident and the recent case of the 11-year-old boy who flew without a ticket demonstrate that breaches of security don't require high-tech smarts or brute force, just a bit of confidence and the right set of circumstances.
Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press | 12 years ago
United's and Lufthansa's first-mover advantage with Passbook support in iOS 6 will be very short-lived as other airlines will undoubtedly be joining the party in the coming days.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago
Voice communications is the third rail of inflight connectivity, and may get better user reception on longhaul flights.
You can expect further disruption, with the strike spreading to other airports, if Lufthansa doesn't get its labor situation straightened out.
Business Travel
Bit behind the times to be touting lie-flat as any kind of competitive advantage, but surely a memorable ad.
It's a strange summer in transportation labor news when we're seeing Germans strike before the Italians, Greeks, French, or Spanish.
Associated Press | 12 years ago
