Lufthansa : LH : DLH

Jeannot a écrit:Vu sur Airliners... Lufthansa effectue des modifications sur les moteurs de sa flotte de 737 300 et 500. Cela permet une reduction de 2,4 décibels et donc une réduction des taxes d'atterrissage.

Avions à réaction subsoniques civils

Le règlement 925/1999 s'applique aux avions à réaction subsoniques civils modifiés et munis d'un nouveau certificat indiquant leur conformité avec les normesdu volume I, deuxième partie, chapitre 3 de l'annexe 16 de la convention sur l'aviation internationale (3 e édition, juillet 1993).
Le 29 septembre 1999, la Commission a présenté une communication relative aux progrès réalisés dans le cadre des concertations avec les États-Unis sur le développement d'une nouvelle génération de normes sonores pour les avions à réaction subsoniques civils et de mesures de transition pour les catégories d'avions à réaction subsoniques civils les plus bruyants dans le cadre du chapitre 3 (COM(1999) 452).
La directive relative à l'évaluation des incidences sur l'environnement (85/337) s'applique aux projets privés et publics, c'est-à-dire aux ouvrages d'art et autres interventions sur la nature et le paysage.

Pour les aéroports comportant une piste de décollage et d'atterrissage de plus de 2 100 mètres de long, il est prévu que les États membres établissent une procédure de vérification permettant notamment de déterminer et d'évaluer les principales répercussions du projet sur l'environnement.
La procédure prévoit en particulier une consultation du public.

RÔLE DU PARLEMENT EUROPÉEN

Le Parlement européen souligne constamment qu'une réduction plus importante des valeurs limites et un perfectionnement des procédés de mesure s'imposent.
Pour les transports aériens, des interdictions de voler la nuit, des taxes aéroportuaires basées sur le bruit et l'abandon de manœuvres de décollage et d'atterrissage particulièrement bruyantes doivent être pris en considération pour les zones résidentielles situées à proximité des aéroports.
En outre, le Parlement souhaite que des valeurs UE soient fixées pour le bruit autour des aéroports et que les réductions des émissions de bruit soient étendues aux avions à réaction subsoniques militaires.

Lufthansa commande huit nouveaux CRJ 900

Lufthansa est toujours aussi friande de Bombardier. La compagnie allemande a passé une nouvelle commande auprès de l’avionneur canadien le 2 juillet, portant sur huit CRJ 900 NextGen. Il s’agit de la conversion d’options qu’elle détenait d’un précédent accord.

Le contrat est évalué à 317 millions de dollars. Les appareils régionaux, qui seront dotés d’une cabine de 86 places, devraient être livrés progressivement au cours du premier semestre 2011 et seront intégrés à Lufthansa Regional.

Lufthansa, au travers de ses filiales régionales CityLine, Eurowings et Augsburg Airways, exploite déjà un certain nombre d’appareils issus des usines du constructeur canadien : dix Q400, vingt-deux CRJ 200, trente-deux CRJ 700 et vingt-sept CRJ 900.

La compagnie a un lien particulier avec Bombardier : elle a été opératrice de lancement du CRJ 100 en 1992. Depuis, elle a commandé 109 exemplaires de la famille de jets régionaux.

Franz To Become Lufthansa CEO

Lufthansa will name Deputy CEO Christoph Franz the company’s CEO at the next meeting of the board of directors, scheduled on Sept. 22, industry sources tell The DAILY.
While no formal decision has been made, no alternatives are being discussed, the sources say. The board will also appoint Carsten Spohr CEO of the airline division and a group executive board member.
Franz joined Lufthansa last year after a successful reign at subsidiary Swiss International Air Lines, during which he turned around the once unprofitable carrier and made it into the most profitable among the group’s several airlines today. When Franz joined, the executive board was expanded to four members, a set-up that will continue. Franz today runs the passenger airline and is known to be pushing for in-depth reforms at the carrier. In a letter to employees after only a few weeks on the job, he pointed out that Lufthansa needed to change significantly in order to survive. He stressed that the airline had to significantly reduce unit costs, particularly in the short-haul arena, to regain competitiveness. In a major shift of thinking, he pointed out that Lufthansa should consider Ryanair, EasyJet and Emirates its new competitors, not British Airways or Air France.
Franz’s strategy markedly differs from the one followed by current CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber. Industry sources say his contract could be extended by a few months through next year’s annual general assembly, but this, too, has not been formally decided. Mayrhuber’s contract ends Dec. 31, and some insiders say they would prefer he left earlier.
Spohr is currently CEO of Lufthansa Cargo. He was seen as a potential rival for Franz, but at age 43 he will be the most likely candidate to succeed Franz once Franz, who is 50, choses to retire. Spohr, an Airbus A320-rated captain, is highly regarded in the company and has been credited with the fast turnaround of Lufthansa Cargo in recent months. He also enjoys strong support from Lufthansa Chairman Juergen Weber.
Several names are circulating as to who will run Lufthansa Cargo in the future. Spohr could be replaced by Andreas Otto, the unit’s executive board member for marketing and sales. Karl-Ulrich Garnadt, member of the executive board at the passenger airline division, is also cited as a possible new CEO, along with Lufthansa Cargo’s current CFO, Peter Gerber.

Lufthansa's cargo business is benefitting from rising demand for goods in China and growing appetite worldwide for Chinese goods, the airline's finance chief said.

"The cargo business is currently absolutely booming. For the first time in over 10 years we are seeing not just strong imports out of China, but also strong exports to China," Stephan Gemkow said.

Demand in China for goods made in the United States and in Europe is rising as wages improve and markets open. Trade data published on Saturday showed that imports rose 34.1 percent in June.
At the same time, exports rose 43.9 percent, giving China a USD$20 billion trade surplus.

Global industry body the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said last month that demand for both air travel and air freight rose strongly in May and now exceeds levels seen before the global economic downturn.
Air cargo is seen as a leading indicator of the health of global trade. Lufthansa, Germany's biggest airline, on Friday reported a 20 percent rise in June cargo.
Gemkow said the company was not feeling any effect from the European debt crisis and said he was optimistic for the company's second-quarter earnings.

"As far as a CFO can be optimistic, I am optimistic," he said.
IATA has said it expects the world's airlines to post an overall 2010 profit, though European carriers will continue to lose money this year, partly due to a volcanic ash cloud that swept large parts of the continent in April.
Lufthansa's aim is to improve 2010 operating profit compared with last year's result of EUR€130 million (USD$163.7 million) on hopes global economic recovery will help offset the negative impact of the volcano crisis.
Gemkow said Lufthansa still expected recently acquired Austrian Airlines, bmi and Brussels Airlines to post a loss this year but that restructuring at the units was going well.

"Management is undertaking a whole bunch of measures to turn them around. We are very happy with the progress they are making," he said.
Lufthansa added the three carriers in a shopping spree last year as it competes with British Airways and Air France-KLM for European pole position.

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The aircraft, powered by [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] engines, was delivered on 19 July and put into service last week on the Frankfurt-Tokyo route.
Lufthansa says that the aircraft was flying the return sector on 6 August when, about an hour before landing at Frankfurt, the crew took a "precautionary" decision to shut the engine down.

A spokesman for the airline says the decision followed the generation of "confusing numbers" on a cockpit indicator.
The indicator showed that the problem centred on oil pressure. Lufthansa's main A380 maintenance base is located at Frankfurt, and the aircraft - serial number 41 - underwent an engine change in order to return it to service as quickly as possible.

Inspection revealed "substances" in the filter but Lufthansa has not given further details. The company had a spare engine available and the aircraft went back into service on 7 August.

Both of the carrier's A380s are operating the Tokyo Narita route, providing a daily service to the Japanese capital from Frankfurt.

Airbus superjumbo 380 too phat for city airport

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Nearly 100 passengers lost their flights on a Lufthansa Airbus 380 to Frankfurt on Tuesday after it was replaced by a smaller Boeing 747, highlighting problems accommodating the superjumbo at Beijing airport and also worldwide.
A Lufthansa airport counter staff member refused to comment on the incident, but claimed the number of passengers affected was "much lower."
Lufthansa originally had plans to operate three such superjumbo flights a week, but the airline was forced to downsize after China air traffic control issued a notice saying the A380 could fly only once a week, the Beijing News reported.
For the time being, the A380 can only fly on Thursdays, the Lufthansa counter employee said.
With a maximum capacity of 850 economy seats, the double-decker Airbus A380 became the largest civil aircraft in the world in 2006 when it entered service.
The unique size created a safety issue of wake turbulence that posed a potential danger to nearby aircraft.
"Aviation safety and capacity may be adversely affected by this enormous plane, further taxing an already strained US aviation system," John Mica, US congressman and ranking member of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee was quoted as saying by the Aviation Daily in April 2007.
"A380 operations would cause reduced throughput and capacity constraints at airports."
The A380's problem is happy news for American aircraft manufacturer Boeing as it competes with European manufacturer Airbus on the global market.
The 79.75-meter wingspan of the superjumbo is too wide, said a city airport spokesman surnamed Ma Wednesday. Pilots have to maintain extra distance to avoid a scrape.
"We built a 30-plus meter custom gate to accommodate the A380, but to organize more than 500 people onboard simultaneously is a new challenge," Ma said. "We just need time to adjust and adapt."
The Airbus wake turbulence and air traffic control difficulties were not top of the list of problems for the airport, said Zhang Qihuai, a civil aviation expert and law professor at the Logistics College of the China Air Force.
The real problem was the capacity and support facilities at Capital International Airport could not accommodate a full complement of Airbuses.
The A380 requires a whole new set of support systems from fueling vehicles to food supply," he said.
Beijing airport has three runways. Denver has six.
"To solve the problem, construction will commence on a fourth runway and Beijing will build its second capital airport," Zhang said.
The new airport project has not been approved, the China Economic Times reported on July 22. Discussion of location and feasibility is still ongoing.
"And the project is rarely mentioned by high-level administration officials now," an unnamed source was quoted as saying.
Beijing airport registered 488,495 aircraft take-offs and landings in 2009, according to data provided by the Airports Council International: 10th in the world and the busiest airport in Asia.
The 12th-busiest airport on the list is London Heathrow Airport, with two major runways.
Heathrow has been handling daily A380 flights since December 1, 2008. Beijing's first commercial A380 landed on August 1 this year.

Lufthansa Targets 8% Operating Margin

Lufthansa wants to significantly improve the profitability of its passenger airline division over the next few years.
The unit’s CEO, Christoph Franz, told staff at an internal briefing that “our target is an operating margin of 8%.” At the peak of the last cycle, Lufthansa reached a 5.4% margin, and it posted a loss of more than €300 million in the first half of 2010.
Franz is expected to be named Lufthansa Group CEO at a board meeting on Sept. 22. He will replace Wolfgang Mayrhuber. At the passenger airline unit, Franz is understood to be succeeded by Carsten Spohr, currently the CEO of Lufthansa Cargo.
The new CEO pointed out that the passenger unit will only grow if its profitability is improved. Therefore he urged staff to continue the productivity and cost-cutting initiatives. The targets of the Climb 2011 program – aimed at shaving €1 billion off its annual cost base from 2011 – will be reached, the project’s leader, Thomas Kluehr, said. Franz pointed out that no “revolution” will take place, but that all functions need to improve. “Sometimes our organization is so complex that we don’t feel the wind of competition,” he said.

• 20 A320s pour Lufthansa
  
• 3 A330-300 pour Lufthansa
  
• des A320 pour Swiss
  
• 5 A330 pour Swiss
  
• 8 A319 pour Germanwings
  

Lufthansa orders 40 more Airbus jets

Germany's Lufthansa Group will buy 40 more Airbus jets, under a deal the company's supervisory board approved Wednesday.
Specifically, the group will acquire 20 A320 Family jets and three A330-300s for Lufthansa airline, A320 Family aircraft and five A330-300s for subsidiary SWISS and eight A319s for subsidiary Germanwings.
The jets are worth approximately $4.3 billion at list prices, although customers generally get steep discounts. The order means Airbus now has won 410 orders from Lufthansa Group, its biggest airline customer.
"Our decision to acquire additional Airbus aircraft is testament not only to their advantageous operating costs, reliability and performance, but also to our long-standing partnership with Airbus," Nico Buchholz, Lufthansa's executive vice president, Group Fleet Management, said in a news release.
Also Wednesday, Lufthansa's board named Deputy Chairman Christoph Franz to succeed Wolfgang Mayrhuber as chairman and chief executive officer of the Lufthansa Group, effective Jan. 1.
"With Christoph Franz at the helm and his broad wealth of experience, foresight and determination to implement change, our company will continue to be able to react to future challenges with the necessary speed and flexibility," Mayrhuber said in a statement.

• 3 A330-300s pour Lufthansa
  
• 20 A32Xs pour Lufthansa
  
• 8 E195 pour Lufthansa Regional
  
• 5 A330-300 pour Swiss
  
• 2 A321 pour Swiss
  
• 2 A320 pour Swiss
  
• 8 A319 pour GermanWings
  

Lufthansa Supervisory Board approves Group’s order for 48 new aircraft
Replacement and additional purchases contribute to the further modernization of the Group’s fleets and offer companies and staff perspectives

The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG approved the order of 48 new aircraft for the Group at its meeting today. Of these new aircraft, eight Airbus A330-300, equipped with Rolls-Royce Trent700 engines, will be deployed on long-haul routes and the remaining 40 aircraft will be deployed in continental traffic. The planned order includes three Airbus A330-300 and twenty Airbus of the A320-family for Lufthansa Passenger Airlines, as well as eight new Embraer 195 aircraft for Lufthansa Regional. In addition, the order includes five Airbus A330-300, two Airbus A321 and two Airbus A320 for SWISS, as well as eight new Airbus A319 for Germanwings. The new, highly modern and fuel efficient aircraft will be delivered to the Group successively from 2012. The order has a list value of approximately 3.5 billion euros.
“Investments in new aircraft strengthen the competitiveness of the airlines in the Group, and a modern fleet increases fuel efficiency and reduces operating costs, noise pollution and CO2 emissions. That equally benefits our customers, shareholders and staff, as well as the environment. This order will allow our airlines to make targeted use of the growth opportunities that are resulting from the growing demand, and at the same time, it will allow us to preserve the necessary freedoms to always react to fluctuations in demand and changes in the market with the necessary flexibility,” commented Lufthansa Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber, speaking on the decision. The financing of the orders shall occur using the Group’s liquid assets or external financing.

Lufthansa Names New Leadership Team

As expected, Lufthansa on Wednesday named Christoph Franz (50) its new Chief Executive Officer, effective Jan. 1, 2011. Franz will succeed Wolfgang Mayrhuber (63), who is retiring at the end of the year. Franz, who previously ran the passenger airline division, will be replaced in his current position by Carsten Spohr (43), currently the CEO of Lufthansa Cargo. Karl Ulrich Garnadt (53), now a member of the passenger airline’s executive board, will be named CEO at Lufthansa Cargo.
Franz is facing great challenges in his new position, particularly in the passenger division. He already has launched a €1 billion ($1.34 billion) cost cutting program, but he indicated last week at an internal event that more reform is needed. Franz is targeting an 8% operating margin in the core business, an unusually high profitability rate for the industry. In order to achieve that, he and Spohr will have to make the European network profitable and find a strategy to compete successfully against low fare carriers. Competition from low fare airlines has been one of the key reasons for steep losses in Lufthansa’s non-hub flying.
Spohr has been credited with the quick financial turn-around of Lufthansa Cargo. The unit suffered a €171 million loss in 2009, but achieved a €144 million ($192.6 million) profit in the first half 2010. He already is seen by many as the likely successor to Franz.
Christoph Franz joined Lufthansa last year after successfully turning around Swiss International Air Lines. He previously was part of the Lufthansa turn-around team that helped save the airline from bankruptcy in the early 1990s before moving on to Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national railways. He left the company as a member of the Executive Board in 2003 and returned to the airline business a year later.
Spohr, an Airbus A320 captain, started his Lufthansa career as the personal assistant to former CEO Juergen Weber. He later ran the group’s regional system and was responsible for alliances and strategy.

22 Sep 2010
ROLLS-ROYCE WINS $560 MILLION ORDER FROM
LUFTHANSA AND SWISS

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won an order worth $560m, at list prices, for Trent 700 engines to power eight Lufthansa and SWISS Airbus A330 aircraft. The order includes a TotalCare® long-term service agreement. The aircraft will enter service from 2012.

Mark King, Rolls-Royce President - Civil Aerospace, said: "We are delighted that Lufthansa and SWISS continue to put their trust in our leading-edge Trent technology. The competitive TotalCare® support package we are able to offer will enable our customers to derive additional operational and performance benefits."

The Trent 700 is the only engine specifically designed for the Airbus A330 and over 1,000 are now in service or on firm order. The engine remains the market leader for the aircraft, capturing 75 per cent of orders over the last three years. The engine offers outstanding levels of performance while delivering the highest available thrust.

Jeannot a écrit:Le groupe Lufthansa va commander 40 Airbus supplémentaires dont :

• 20 A320s pour Lufthansa
  
• 3 A330-300 pour Lufthansa
  
• des A320 pour Swiss
  
• 5 A330 pour Swiss
  
• 8 A319 pour Germanwings
  

Lufthansa orders 40 more Airbus jets

Germany's Lufthansa Group will buy 40 more Airbus jets, under a deal the company's supervisory board approved Wednesday.
Specifically, the group will acquire 20 A320 Family jets and three A330-300s for Lufthansa airline, A320 Family aircraft and five A330-300s for subsidiary SWISS and eight A319s for subsidiary Germanwings.
The jets are worth approximately $4.3 billion at list prices, although customers generally get steep discounts. The order means Airbus now has won 410 orders from Lufthansa Group, its biggest airline customer.
"Our decision to acquire additional Airbus aircraft is testament not only to their advantageous operating costs, reliability and performance, but also to our long-standing partnership with Airbus," Nico Buchholz, Lufthansa's executive vice president, Group Fleet Management, said in a news release.
Also Wednesday, Lufthansa's board named Deputy Chairman Christoph Franz to succeed Wolfgang Mayrhuber as chairman and chief executive officer of the Lufthansa Group, effective Jan. 1.
"With Christoph Franz at the helm and his broad wealth of experience, foresight and determination to implement change, our company will continue to be able to react to future challenges with the necessary speed and flexibility," Mayrhuber said in a statement.

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The Lufthansa's supervisory board has approved a Group's order for a total of 48 new Airbus and Embraer aircraft.
The planned order includes three Airbus A330-300 and 20 Airbus A320 Family aircraft for Lufthansa.

The order also includes five Airbus A330-300s, two Airbus A321s and tw Airbus A320s for SWISS, ...

...... as well as eight new Airbus A319 for Germanwings as well as eight new Embraer 195 aircraft for Lufthansa Regional.

Lufthansa says the new aircraft will be delivered to the Group from 2012 onwards.

"This order will allow our airlines to make targeted use of the growth opportunities that are resulting from the growing demand, and at the same time, it will allow us to preserve the necessary freedoms to always react to fluctuations in demand and changes in the market with the necessary flexibility," comments Lufthansa Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber.

The financing of the orders shall occur using the Group's liquid assets or external financing says the Group.

• Les moteurs des 8 x A330-300 (dont 3 pour Lufthansa & 5 pour SWISS)
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The Lufthansa's supervisory board has approved a Group's order for a total of 48 new Airbus and Embraer aircraft.
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Jeannot a écrit:Cette commande figure aussi sur le site d'Airbus... Alors... je pense qu'elle doit e^tre officielle. Non ?

VictorK a écrit:Merci Sevrien !

DLH, l'exemple type de la commande par excellence, référencée comme un désintérêt actuel pour la "révolution" NEO. " Caramba !"

VictorK a écrit: Dans quelques temps, M. Franz, le nouveau boss, aura le reporting de Swiss sur les CS. Un appareil qui n'a pas ( et n'aura jamais ) les capacités en belly freight des 320 famille.

VictorK a écrit: Et à condition que ce beau CS sorte des eaux.....avec une autre motorisation, est-ce possible ?
C'est pourtant bien une des questions posées il y a peu par Qatar ( en forme de conclusion )

Les vertus de la maintenance préventive.

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Mais l'excellente tenue, jusqu'ici, des moteurs RR Trent 900 est à noter !

Lufthansa to Hold Talks With Poland on Pending LOT Sale,


[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] will hold talks with the Polish government over the sale of national carrier Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT SA to private investors, [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] reported, citing incoming Chief Executive Officer [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
Franz, who takes over from [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] on Jan. 1, said the German company couldn’t “ignore” the pending sale and that Poland needs a “strong airline” for its state-controlled carrier, the newspaper reported. Lufthansa may also invest in a west African airline, Franz told Sueddeutsche.
Franz said the company should aim for an operating-profit margin of 8 percent in its passenger business, the newspaper also reported