Deutsche Lufthansa AG

German Top Flight Training Organization To Perform Initial Training of Lufthansa's Future Pilots on Mechtronix FSTD's MONTREAL , March 15 /PRNewswire/ - Mechtronix Systems Inc., an MWC company, a world leading manufacturer of Flight Simulation Training Devices (FSTD), today announced the certification of the fifth FSTD recently delivered to Lufthansa Flight Training (LFT), successfully completing the order for five simulators. The FSTD's installed at the Bremen facilit  

Government departments in the UK and USA seem to be on the verge of making a U-turn on whether heated oil fumes in aircraft cabin air can severely damage crew and passenger health. Having previously denied it, now they seem to be preparing to admit the possibility. Meanwhile, some airlines are fitting air treatment systems to clean up engine bleed air supplied to the cabin and teaching pilots handling techniques to reduce the number and severity of fume events.

The Committee on Toxicity and the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology have identified a knowledge gap. We are now trying to fill that gap. No-one has previously captured samples of cabin air during normal conditions and fume events and analysed them to see what substances they contain and in what concentrations.   -DfT

 

The buy Lufthansa has put business class on sale during the peak summer months, when many business travellers are relaxing at the cottage. The savings Thousands of dollars over normal rates; this week, a Toronto-Moscow return business-class ticket ranges from about $5,500 to $10,000. The catch You must book by March 31 for travel from July 1 through Sept. 3.  

 

"In terms of the number of destinations, frequencies and product, we are the number one to Africa. We will do everything we can to keep our leadership position," he said yesterday in Brussels. AF KLM claims a 30% share of the passenger market between Europe and Africa. It operates some 380 weekly flights from its Paris Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam hubs to 43 destinations on the continent, of which 29 are unique to AF, 10 are served only by KLM and four by both.

which have rediscovered Africa. It's up to Air France KLM to show and sell our assets and keep our passengers happy   -Paris Charles de Gaulle

 

Emirates airline, owned by the government of Dubai, is set to meet its full-year profit goal of AED2bn, and expects no problems funding its plane purchases this year. "We've had a very good year," Chief Executive Tim Clark told Reuters in an interview at the world's biggest travel fair, ITB Berlin. Its fiscal year ends on March 31.

We've had a very good year   -Tim Clark

 

Lufthansa Systems AG today announced that its Supervisory Board has appointed Stefan Hansen as CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board for a period of three years. Stefan Hansen will join the Executive Board of Lufthansa Systems AG effective July 1, 2010. He will succeed Wolfgang F. W. Gohde, who is leaving at his own request when his contract ends on March 31, 2010.  

Lufthansa has tapped Panasonic Avionics to provide the in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems for its Airbus A380s. Confirming the deal today, a Lufthansa spokeswoman says: "The IFE system on our A380 will be supplied by Panasonic." Further details have not been disclosed.  

BAE Systems has admitted that early customers have encountered problems with its Quest AirManager cabin-air treatment system, launched in September 2009 for the Avro RJ and British Aerospace 146. Lufthansa CityLine has suspended the installation of AirManager in its RJ85 fleet, having reported an increase in cabin 'smell' or 'fume' events, associated with engine oil and de-icing fluid contaminants, in aircraft fitted with the system. BAE insists AirManager remains "a step change" in cabin-air treatmen