Lufthansa Cargo rewards innovative ideas for climate friendly airfreight
Environmental prize for young researchers, customers and staff
28.10.08 Lufthansa Cargo AG is conferring its first-ever innovation prize next year. The “Cargo Climate Care Award“, as the prize is labelled, is intended to honour committed endeavour by customers and staff of Lufthansa Cargo AG as well as students and young scientist. more...
Environment
Paperless airfreight transport from Germany celebrates its premiere
Lufthansa Cargo and DB Schenker get “e-freight” off the ground
29.09.08 Lufthansa Cargo AG, together with its Global Partner DB Schenker, last Wednesday despatched the first paperless airfreight shipment from the German market. more...
Personnel and social responsiblity
Lufthansa Cargo invests massively in training young people
New traineeships in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Stuttgart
25.09.08 Lufthansa Cargo AG is ploughing huge resources into training young people and, by 2010, more than doubling the number of traineeships at its Frankfurt home base from 15 to 32. It is additionally making more training positions available in Munich, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Stuttgart, raising the total number of traineeships on offer in Germany annually to 37. more...
Passage
TÜV Rheinland certificate for transparent pricing
No hidden costs in LH online booking
19.09.08 Lufthansa is the first German airline to receive an official certificate of approval for the transparent pricing of its online booking system www.lufthansa.com. The certificate was issued by TÜV Rheinland, a leading group for the provision of technical services worldwide, headquartered in Cologne. TÜV Rheinland rated the correspondence between the expected, advertised and final price of a Lufthansa ticket positively. At Lufthansa the final airfare always includes all taxes, charges and surcharges. more...
Environment
Fly Lufthansa anywhere in Europe without a paper ticket
Online check-in and boarding via mobile phone to almost 400 destinations in Germany
18.09.08 Lufthansa passengers can now use mobile boarding passes on all flights from Germany to any destination in Europe. The mobile boarding pass is sent to passengers via email or SMS to an Internet-enabled cell phone. more...
Environment
Lufthansa again included in Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Leader in terms of Innovation Management, Human Capital Development and Noise Reduction
04.09.08 Lufthansa has once again qualified for inclusion in the internationally recognised Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). The Group succeeded in improving its rating year-on-year in all three dimensions of corporate sustainability (economic, environmental and social), scoring the highest overall number of points since it was first included in the index in 1999. more...
Group
Lufthansa named best airline in Europe
2008 World Airline Award goes to Germany’s largest carrier
20.08.08 Lufthansa has been voted the best airline in Europe in the 2008 World Airline Awards, beating 59 other carriers. more...
Environment
Joint Venture of Lufthansa Technik AG and Rolls-Royce plc certified
Having an environmental management system included in the company’s philosophy N3 Engine Overhaul Services now gets certified in DIN EN ISO 14001
18.07.08 N3 Engine Overhaul Services, a Joint Venture of Lufthansa Technik AG and Rolls-Royce plc. for maintenance, repair and overhaul of aircraft engines received certification in DIN EN ISO 14001 from TÜV Thuringia. Its Chairman, Bernd Moser, today hands over the document. Herewith N3 has written proof of a successful implementation of an environmental management system. Wolfgang Kühnhold, CEO of N3 says: “We have already considered environmental protection while planning the operation of N3 and introduced a separate environmental policy. The environmental technologies used at N3 are a benchmark for the industry”.
Responsibility
Lufthansa publishes sustainability report 2008
Worldwide commitment to sustainable mobility
16.07.08 Lufthansa has today published a new issue of its ”Balance“ sustainability report giving a broad sweep of the Group’s activities, the advances it has made and its future objectives in the environmental, business, societal and social fields. Highlights this year are the decrease of the average fuel burn of the fleet to 4,32 l/100pkm and the 15 environmental goals until 2020. “Imperative as it is to achieve business success, we at Lufthansa are always aware of our special responsibility for the environment,” said Lufthansa Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber. “Environmental care is and will remain in the future one of Lufthansa’s uppermost corporate objectives.” more...
Environment
Lufthansa targets new aims in environment and climate
Environmental programme details vision of mobility tomorrow / Publication of Lufthansa Sustainability Report “Balance”
16.06.08 The Group has specified 15 guidelines to steer its path towards realisation of further decisive progress in environmental efficiency by the year 2020. more...
Social Commitment
Lufthansa helps earthquake victims in China
Flight with relief supplies scheduled to take off for Chengdu tomorrow
27.05.08 Since the severe earthquake in Sichuan Province in China, millions of people in the region have been dependent on aid. Tomorrow morning, Lufthansa Cargo is dispatching a relief flight with the flight number LH 8462 from Frankfurt to Chengdu. more...
Social Commitment
Big Business in the classroom
Lufthansa awards a prize to the winners of the school competition
15.05.08 nterprising student teams from high schools in German federal countries of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate compete in the business@school country decision. more...
Passenger Business
In good hands with the "Red Caps" forty years on
Lufthansa Special Service for people in need of assistance celebrates jubilee
06.05.08 Forty years ago to the day, 24 "Red Caps" turned up for work at the launch in Frankfurt of Lufthansa’s special service for people in need of assistance. Meantime, this Lufthansa Special Service has become a firm and important fixture in the services which Lufthansa provides on the ground. more...
Environment
Airborne ambassador
Lufthansa supports Naturallianz
30.04.08 A map of the world made of multicolored dots and the slogan “One Nature – One World – Our Future”: This logo has adorned the fuselage of the Lufthansa Boeing 747 named “Bonn” since the end of March 2008. As airborne ambassador, this aircraft has meanwhile been drawing attention around the world to the UN Conference on Biological Diversity to take place in Bonn from May 19 to 30. Lufthansa, as a “Naturallianz” supporter, informs in various ways about the upcoming conference and the necessity to protect biological diversity. more...
Environment
Carbon offset accounting feature for business air travel
Lufthansa affiliate AirPlus wins Business Travel Show Innovation Award 2008
20.03.08 The international provider of business travel management solutions AirPus was awarded the Innovation Award in the Corporate Responsibility Category for its future-oriented fully-integrated solution for handling climate protection contributions for business travel on the Business Travel Show 2008 in Dusseldorf and London. Managing director Patrick W. Diemer commented that this award just showed how important the topic of environmental and climate protection for business travel had become, even on an international level. The winning solution, a centrally lodged travel management card offers cost transparency and a detailed calculation for the sustainability reporting. A further advantage is the saving of time and processing cost for the companies. Therefore it alleviates a big administrative hurdle companies are facing when taking steps to become involved in protecting the environment.
Environment
Lufthansa starts 2008 with another “green contribution”
Lufthansa Magazines “Exclusive” and “Magazin” now printed on certified recycling paper
21.01.08 Starting with their January issues Lufthansa´s on board magazines “Exclusive” and “Magazin” a yearly amount of 2100 tonnes of fresh pulp paper was substituted by FSC certified recycled, environmentally friendly paper. Since this paper uses less water, energy and forest resources in its production process this is a relief for the climate and the environment.
Personnel and social responsiblity
Lufthansa popular with women
Lufthansa the most attractive employer for women graduates
18.01.08 Lufthansa is the most attractive employer for women – that was revealed by a survey conducted by the personnel consulting company Access, among female graduates with up to seven years professional experience. more...
Personnel and social responsiblity
Lufthansa taking on close to 4,300 new staff in Germany in 2008
Close to 10,000 new staff since 2006 / Need for further employees for positions in the cabin and on the ground
02.01.08 Lufthansa is all set to continue its growth in the New Year: To accommodate future expansion, Germany’s biggest airline will be taking on close to 4,300 new staff in 2008. more...
Environment
Atmospheric research projects CARIBIC and MOZAIC
Videos now online
21.11.07 The European projects CARIBIC and MOZAIC are supported by Lufthansa and serve basic atmospheric research. For CARIBIC, a Lufthansa Airbus A340-600 was equipped with a measuring container weighing 1.6 tons. Two Lufthansa Airbus A340-300 aircraft continuously measure for the MOZAIC project the atmospheric content of ozone, water vapour, carbon monoxide and nitric oxides while in flight. Under the guidance of the Max Planck Institute, the "flying CARIBIC laboratory" helps scientists to understand complex processes related to climate change. The data generated by the MOZAIC project provides a basis for improving the accuracy of global climate models.
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Environment
FRA and MUC to test emissions-related charges
Three-year pilot phase will send a clear signal to airlines and aircraft manufacturers
28.09.07 Take-off and landing charges at Frankfurt and Munich will include an emissions-related component from next year as part of a three-year test phase, Germany’s Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee announced in Berlin on 26 September. more...
Personnel and social responsiblity
New jets for Lufthansa’s pilot training programme
Four Cessna Citation CJ1+ aircraft – New training concept for 2008
25.09.07 For the first time, Lufthansa is to use jets for its own pilot training programme and has placed an order with the US manufacturer Cessna for four Citation CJ1+ aircraft. more...
Economy
Lufthansa orders 41 new aircraft
Lufthansa invests in the future/ Supervisory Board approves ongoing modernisation and expansion of Group’s aircraft fleets
19.09.07 The Lufthansa Supervisory Board has approved at today’s meeting orders for 41 aircraft. 30 of the new aircraft from the A320 family are destined for service with Lufthansa in European traffic. Nine others of the Airbus 330-300 long-range type and two continental Airbus A320s will be joining the SWISS fleet. more...
Environment
Lufthansa Cargo publishes new environmental guidelines
On 18th September, the Executive Board decided on the new Environmental Guidelines of Lufthansa Cargo.
18.09.07 On their signing by the four members of the Executive Board, the Environmental Guidelines officially came into force for Lufthansa Cargo. The Environmental Guidelines contain ecologically-oriented values, strategic overall targets as well as principles for action on which Lufthansa Cargo will orientate itself in the medium to long term. They include an obligation to compliance with all relevant legal provisions, to the continuous improvement of the environmental performance and to the prevention of environmental pollution. The Environmental Guidelines are part of the environmental management system and the starting signal for further environmentally relevant measures within the company.
Environment
Lufthansa and SWISS offer their customers new platform to promote climate protection
Both airlines choose Swiss non-profit organisation “myclimate” as partner for carbon offset donations
17.09.07 From 17 September, Lufthansa passengers will have a further opportunity to play an active role in tackling climate change. Via the independent partner organisation myclimate, ecologically aware air travellers can invest specifically in climate protection projects. more...
Sustainability
Lufthansa again included in Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Excellent performance in terms of economic, environmental and social criteria
13.09.07 The index, which is compiled by Zurich-based SAM Sustainable Asset Management Indexes GmbH, lists companies whose management strategies take account not only of economic but also of environmental and social criteria. more...
Environment
IATA: From June 2008 all tickets will be electronic
IATA has placed its last order for 16.5 million paper tickets
27.08.07 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announces deadline for paper tickets. From June 2008, all tickets issued through the IATA billing and settlement system will be electronic, said IATA's Director General and CEO, Giovanni Bisignani, in Geneva at the end of August. IATA has placed its final order for 16.5 million paper tickets from seven specialised printers. Migration to electronic ticketing will not only cut booking costs, but also save the equivalent of 50,000 mature trees each year. more...
Personnel and social responsiblity
Training diversity
39 training occupations at Lufthansa
24.08.07 The choice is great: 39 different training occupations are offered by in the Lufthansa group. Office or industrial clerk manager is only two of the 16 commercial occupations in which an apprenticeship can be served within the company. more...
Personnel and social responsiblity
Lufthansa offers 39 apprenticeships and traineeships – good opportunities and prospects for young people
325 apprentices and trainees start their careers at Lufthansa
16.08.07 Over the next few months, more than 300 young people will commence training at Lufthansa in preparation for their future professional careers. more...
Environment
84 tonnes of wood saved
Lufthansa Flight Operations switches to recycled paper
02.08.07 By installing about 21,000 new, lighter aircraft seats, for instance, Lufthansa will save approximately 12,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. The company also supports several EU research projects on climate protection. more...
Responsibility
Sustainability report “Balance 2007” published
Lufthansa stays on track and reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emissions
02.08.07 The report contains extensive information about the Lufthansa Aviation Group’s business, social and environmental activities, including its 2006 achievements and goals for the future. more...
Environment
Rail & Fly – the attractive train-to-plane option
The relaxed way to travel thanks to cooperation between Lufthansa and Deutsche Bahn
11.07.07 Whether travelling for business or pleasure, Lufthansa passengers can now enjoy a hassle-free journey to their airport – and take advantage of the new, lower Rail & Fly fares. more...
Economy
Lufthansa Cargo flies to the top
Freight Carrier honoured by logistics trade magazines
27.04.07 In the latest, worldwide survey conducted by the respected US logistics trade magazine “Air Cargo World”, Lufthansa Cargo ranked first among 81 airlines as the best airfreight company. Lufthansa Cargo also earned top ratings among the readers of ”Cargonews Asia”. They selected the company as the ”Best Air Cargo Carrier Europe“. more...
Economy
Lufthansa Cargo first cargo carrier, worldwide, to receive IOSA certificate
Air cargo airline sets the pace on flight safety
24.04.07 Lufthansa Cargo is the first IOSA-registered all cargo airline, worldwide. After the successful conclusion of an intensive five-day audit, the Lufthansa airfreight carrier has assumed a pacemaker role on flight safety standards among the airlines in the air cargo business. more...
Personnel and social responsiblity
Another award for Lufthansa’s corporate university
The Lufthansa Group continues to set trends in leadership development
28.02.07 The Lufthansa School of Business, Germany’s first corporate university, has received another prestigious award for having the best leadership development programme in an international comparison. more...
Economy
Lufthansa wins award for best fuel management strategy
Prize granted by the Armbrust Aviation Group / LH top in seven out of eight categories
27.02.07 Lufthansa has again received an award from the Armbrust Aviation Group for having the best fuel management strategy in the airline industry. The fuel suppliers who took part in the survey ranked Lufthansa first in seven of the eight individual categories, including “Best staff”, “Attention to quality & operations” and “Most innovative”. more...
Social Commitment
Miles for a good cause
“Miles to Help”: more than 1,000 donations
20.10.06 Anyone who collects bonus miles with Lufthansa’s “Miles & More” can now also use them for a good cause and help people in need or support the protection of the environment. More than 25 million miles were already donated in the first few months since the start of the programme in November 2006 more...
Environment
Lufthansa Technik a pioneer in quality management
First integrated system
08.02.07 Lufthansa Technik AG is the first company in the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry to have established an integrated quality management system according to the international standards, covering the areas of quality, environment, and health and safety. more...
Environment
Lufthansa expands and modernises long-range fleet
Supervisory Board approves orders for 27 new aircraft
06.12.06
Social Commitment
Doing good worldwide with air miles
Miles & More members can now donate miles to aid organisations
20.10.06
Environment
Lufthansa again represented in DJSI sustainability index
Performance in environmental care and social responsibility further improved
07.09.06
To find out more about responsibility at Lufthansa, read the latest sustainability report Balance.