December 1917; 106 years ago (1917-12) (as Deutsche Luft-Reederei)
6 April 1926; 97 years ago (1926-04-06) (as Deutsche Luft Hansa)
[note 1]
Commenced operations
1919; 105 years ago (1919)
Hubs
Frankfurt
Munich[note 2]
Frequent-flyer program
Miles & More
Alliance
Star Alliance
Subsidiaries
Austrian Airlines
Brussels Airlines
Lufthansa City Airlines
Discover Airlines
Eurowings
Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Regional
Air Dolomiti
Lufthansa CityLine
Swiss International Air Lines
Edelweiss Air
ITA Airways (pending), (41%)
AeroLogic (50%)
SunExpress (50%)
LSG Sky Chefs
Lufthansa Consulting
Lufthansa Flight Training
Lufthansa Industry Solutions
Lufthansa Systems
Lufthansa Technik
Global Load Control
Fleet size
274 (+169 orders)
Destinations
229
Parent company
Lufthansa Group
Traded as
FWB: LHA
MDAX Component
ISIN
DE0008232125
Headquarters
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Key people
Carsten Spohr (Chairman & CEO) [5]
Christina Foerster
Harry Hohmeister
Detlef Kayser
Michael Niggemann
Remco Steenbergen
Karl-Ludwig Kley (Chairman of the board)
Founders
Former Deutsche Luft Hansa staffs including:
Kurt Weigelt, chairman 1953–60, honorary president until 1968
Kurt Knipfer, head of aviation, Federal Ministry of Transport
Revenue
€32.8 billion (2022)[6]
Operating income
€1.5 billion (2022)[6]
Net income
€791 million (2022)[6]
Total assets
€43.335 billion (2022)[6]
Total equity
€8.5 billion (2022)[6]
Employees
109,509 (2022)[6]
Website
www.lufthansa.com
Deutsche Lufthansa AG / Lufthansa German Airlines (German pronunciation:[ˌdɔʏtʃəˈlʊfthanzaːʔaːˈɡeː]), commonly shortened to Lufthansa (German:[ˈlʊftˌhanza]ⓘ), serves as the flag carrier of Germany.[12] When combined with its subsidiaries, it stands as the second-largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried, after the ultra low-cost carrier Ryanair, largest in Europe and fourth largest in the world by revenue.[13][14] Lufthansa is also one of the five founding members of Star Alliance, which is the world's largest airline alliance, formed in 1997.[15][16]
Besides its own services, and owning subsidiary passenger airlines Austrian Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, Brussels Airlines, discover airlines[17] and Eurowings (referred to in English by Lufthansa as its Passenger Airline Group), Deutsche Lufthansa AG owns several aviation-related companies, such as Lufthansa Technik and LSG Sky Chefs, as part of the Lufthansa Group. In total, the group has over 700 aircraft, making it one of the largest airline fleets in the world.[18]
Lufthansa's registered office and corporate headquarters are in Cologne.[19] The main operations base, called Lufthansa Aviation Center, is at Lufthansa's primary hub at Frankfurt Airport,[20][21] and its secondary hub is at Munich Airport where a secondary Flight Operations Centre is maintained.[22]
The company was founded as Luftag in 1953 by staff of the former Deutsche Luft Hansa that had been politically connected to the government of Nazi Germany and dissolved after World War II. Luftag continued the traditional branding of the German flag carrier by acquiring the Luft Hansa name and logo.
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^"Berlin airports strike to ground more than 650 flights". BBC News. 13 March 2017. Archived from the original on 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022. German flag carrier Lufthansa said ...
^"Air travel faces continued turbulence". BBC News. 8 April 2020. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022. The German flag-carrier followed up ...
^Bray, Chad (12 October 2017). "Lufthansa to Buy Units of Air Berlin for $249 Million". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022. The German flag carrier Lufthansa ...
^Clark, Nicola (22 April 2013). "Strike Grounds Most Lufthansa Flights". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022. A widespread strike all but grounded the German flag carrier Lufthansa on Monday
^Murray, Miranda; Szymanska, Zuzanna (12 November 2021). "German ministries welcome Lufthansa's early bailout aid repayment". Reuters. Archived from the original on 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022. Germany's finance and economy ministries on Friday welcomed the early repayment by flag carrier Lufthansa
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^Tagliabue, John (15 May 1997). "5 Airlines Extend Limits of Alliances". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
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^Group, Lufthansa. "Discover Airlines". Lufthansa Group. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
^"Lufthansa, IAG, Air France-KLM fleets: Lufthansa Group largest". CAPA - Centre for Aviation. Aviation Week Network. 28 March 2019. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
^Annual Report 2020 (PDF) (Report). Lufthansa Group. 4 March 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 November 2021.
^"Home - Lufthansa Aviation Center". lufthansagroup.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2006. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
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