It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some airplane art. This week - coming into Birmingham Airport on a rather sunny May afternoon is a Germanwings Airbus A319 in landing configuration. D-AGWG is a pretty standard A319 in the Germanwings fleet, with it being a member of the 43 strong cadre flying for Eurowings (who operate 11 Airbus A319s). However, there's an … [Read more...]
Germanwings 4U9525: One Pilot Locked out According to the New York Times
The New York Times has reported that one of the pilots of Germanwings flight 4U9525 may have been locked out of the cockpit before the flight crashed. New York Times Screenshot - Taken at 01:40:42GMT, Content and Image - New York Times. New York Times article link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/europe/germanwings-airbus-crash.html?smid=tw-bna The Cockpit … [Read more...]
Another Germanwings Strike (16th October 2014)
It seems Vereinigung Cockpit is still unhappy with the planned changes to retirement policies at Lufthansa Group, with the union members of who fly with Germanwings to strike on 16th October 2014 for 12 hours. Germanwings Airbus A319 taxing at Heathrow - Image, Economy Class and Beyond. The stoppage will run between 12:00CET and 00:00CET (Central European Time) during … [Read more...]
Germanwings strike tommorow (29th August)
All is not well with Germanwings, with a strike in the offing from the Vereinigung Cockpit Union tomorrow. Germanwings Airbus A319 taxing at Heathrow - Image GhettoIFE The strike is over pilots who want the airline to maintain its current retirement benefits - where they can retire early at 55 and continue to receive some of their wages. Germanwings owners - Lufthansa - … [Read more...]
Airplane Art – Germanwings Airbus A319
It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more Airplane art. This week, taxing in the murk of a cloudy London Heathrow morning, is a Germanwings Airbus A319-100 as it is heading for the departure runway on its way back to Germany (with a British Airways A321 photobombing in the background, taking off). The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version – and … [Read more...]
Germanwings continues Dusseldorf Transfer from Lufthansa
From the 30th March 2014, Lufthansa's transformation plan to make its European service will hit Dusseldorf with a bang, as 243 flights over 31 routes will switch from Lufthansa Mainline/Lufthansa Regional to Germanwings. The full list of routes is at http://airlineroute.net/2013/10/11/lh4u-dus-s14/, with services being operated by a mixture of Airbus A319s, A320s and … [Read more...]
Germanwings formally relauches
The low-cost arm of Lufthansa - Germanwings has been relaunched as of Monday. Rendering: Germanwings/Lufthansa Group. In real terms, it means that short-haul flights that don't head to Lufthansa's main hubs of Frankfurt or Munich will be slowly switched over to Germanwings. The aim of this upheaval is to help Lufthansa's short-haul division back into … [Read more...]
New LHR T2 continues apace… but where are some airlines ending up?
London Heathrow T2. For some of you, you'll have flashbacks to the Europa Terminal as it used to be called. Well, that's all changed as the new Heathrow T2 is nearing completion. Roof of the new LHR T2 - Image BAA. Well to no-one's surprise, T2 will be the home of Star Alliance with plans for all Star Alliance airlines who operate in and out of Heathrow to move into … [Read more...]
Lufthansa’s LCC wing to operate any service not connect FRA/MUC will be called…
Germanwings to no-one's surprise. Lufthansa is creating a new short haul budget airline to take the strain off the cost base off mainline Lufthansa. The revised Germanwings brand will be used for point-to-point services on domestic German and European routes that do not cross Frankfurt or Munich Airports as a Low Cost Carrier. Services connecting in and out of FRA/MUC … [Read more...]
The Germanwings are coming – on LHR to Cologne route
Germanwings seem to be - well - spreading their wings further. The Lufthansa owned carrier will be operating the Cologne to London route on behalf of the Lufthansa. Germanwings growth is accelerating in the UK. It has been announced they will Already they will be running to the UK: Stuttgart to Heathrow (Commencing February) Stuttgart to Manchester (Commencing … [Read more...]
