Overview
- The airline has carved giant “100 Years Lufthansa” logos into fields near the Berlin, Frankfurt, and Munich airports, with the designs visible from March through September on plots as large as 48 hectares.
- A yearlong program features tributes in Berlin on April 6 to the first scheduled flight in 1926, the opening of the new Hangar One visitor center in Frankfurt this month, a major Frankfurt ceremony expected to host the federal chancellor, and a set of special-livery jets that includes an A380 with an oversized crane logo.
- For the first time, Lufthansa has publicly set out the full record of its 1926 predecessor’s ties to the Nazi regime, including the exploitation of more than 10,000 forced laborers, while noting the modern company launched in 1955 is not the legal successor.
- Recent results show revenue of €39.6 billion but a lower profit than in 2024, and the group has so far missed a planned return to Germany’s DAX blue-chip index after share losses linked to the Iran war.
- CEO Carsten Spohr has ordered contingency plans for the Iran war, including parking part of the fleet and using short-time work, as the group also pursues a restructuring that targets about 4,000 position cuts and faces strike-ready pilot and cabin crew unions.