The day before the attacks, the New York office requested that the Los Angeles FBI office check all local Sheraton Hotels, as well as Lufthansa and United Airlines bookings, because those were the two airlines Mihdhar had used to enter the country.

On 29 October, hijackers of a West German Lufthansa passenger jet demanded the release of the three surviving gunmen, who had been arrested after the Fürstenfeldbruck gunfight and were being held for trial.

Most of the European airlines had flights to Baghdad ( BGW ) Swissair, SAS, British Airways, LOT, Lufthansa, etc.

Early customers also included Lufthansa pilots who had read about the board, who simply included one as personal luggage on their return journey from Los Angeles International Airport.

With major airlines leaving Sheremetyevo ( most notably, Lufthansa, British Airways, Iberia Airlines, Japan Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Austrian Airlines Group and Swiss International Air Lines ), the need for reconstruction had become ever more evident.

As Lufthansa's home base at Frankfurt Airport had capacity limits, Lufthansa established a second hub offering connections through Munich as well as Frankfurt.

In 1961, Deutsche Flugdienst took over its rival Condor-Luftreederei ( which had been founded in 1957 by Oetker ), subsequently changing its name to Condor Flugdienst GmbH, thus re-introducing the " Condor " name with Lufthansa ( there was a Brazilian subsidiary named Syndicato Condor between 1928 and 1943 ).

The airline had already forged commercial and cooperative agreements with several members of the Star Alliance by then, including Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Thai Airways International, Swiss International Airlines, South African Airways, Turkish Airlines and bmi.

Lufthansa had a codeshare on the flight as LH2420.

On 22 December 2011, IAG announced it had agreed a contract with Lufthansa to buy BMI.

As a result, the passengers who were to board Avianca flight 011 in Frankfurt had been placed on a Lufthansa flight to Paris.

Sepe had been brought in for questioning by the police about the Lufthansa Heist, and the only thing he told them was " I don't know whatcha talking about.

Lufthansa had introduced the Boeing 707 in 1960, which made more noise than previous piston engined aircraft.

She had good reason to be concerned about Reggie, however, who travelled from Romania to Greece on the German Lufthansa airline – Lufthansa planes were sometimes diverted to Axis countries.

By 1970, at 29 years old, Uchtdorf had reached the rank of Captain with Lufthansa.

They included the inexorable rise of the low-cost, " no frills " airlines, first and foremost EasyJet and Ryanair, in BA's own backyard as well as the growing competitive threat posed by the government-assisted recovery of Lufthansa and Air France, BA's main European full-service, network airline rivals, both of which had been in no position to challenge BA commercially in the early to mid-1990s as they were effectively bankrupt at that time.

DeSimone was a good friend of Stacks and was disappointed to hear that he had failed to get rid of the truck used in the Lufthansa Heist in New Jersey, where the evidence would be destroyed.

Following the Lufthansa heist, Theresa Ferrara, Martin Krugman, Robert McMahon, Joe Manri, Parnell Edwards and Paolo LiCastri had all been murdered by Burke, who wanted to avoid paying them their share of the loot.

In earlier years, Lufthansa Cargo had a secondary base at Leipzig / Halle Airport, the European hub for DHL Express, from where it operated flights on behalf of DHL.

Over the years KLM, Euralair, Lufthansa and the SAir Group ( Swissair ), who sold their stake in 2001, all had ownership stakes in Air Littoral.

Northwest and KLM had begun cooperating in 1989, but the formation of the Star Alliance in 1997 led by United Airlines and Lufthansa represented a new direction for airline marketing.

In the past Lufthansa Technik & Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited ( BPCL ) had also filed winding up petition against Kingfisher Airlines

LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, EgyptAir, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Swiss International Airlines have already expressed their interest in relaunching flights to Baghdad, and for Star Alliance airlines to take advantage of their early presence at Ebril, in the near future.

Air Algerie has no intention on hastening the privatization of the company, but there are already three companies that want to acquire the company, which are Air France, Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines.

The terminal is operated by Terminal-2-Betriebsgesellschaft ( German for Terminal 2 Operating Company ), which is owned by Flughafen München GmbH ( 60 %) and Lufthansa ( 40 %).

This agreement, under which Lufthansa contracted up to seven of Pan Am's Tegel-based Boeing 727-200s operated by that airline's flightdeck and cabin crews to ply its scheduled routes to Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart until mid-1991, also facilitated Pan Am's orderly exit from the internal German air transport market after 40 years ' uninterrupted service as European Union ( EU ) legislation prevented it from participating in the internal air transport market of the EU / European Economic Area ( EEA ) as a non-EU / EEA headquartered carrier.

The service was first commercially demonstrated onboard two Boeing 747 aircraft that were operated by Lufthansa and British Airways in 2003.

Connections between domestic and international destinations are currently operated directly and through codesharing agreements with airlines such as Delta Air Lines, Lacsa ( part of Grupo Taca ), Iberia, Air Canada, Lufthansa, and Air France.

Canjet operated a fleet of nine Boeing 737-500 — seven of which were formerly operated by United Airlines, one by Lufthansa — and one Boeing 737-300.

Wegener was the GSG 9 commander at the liberation of the hostages of the PFLP on the Boeing 737 Landshut, operated by Lufthansa as flight 181, in Mogadishu, Somalia, in the night from the 17th to the 18th October 1977.

* Lufthansa operated four aircraft.

From February 1934 to August 1939 Deutsche Lufthansa operated a regular airmail service between Natal, Brazil, and Bathurst, The Gambia, continuing via the Canary Islands and Spain to Stuttgart, Germany.

It operated both charter and scheduled flights, the latter on behalf of Lufthansa and Swiss International Air Lines.

Lufthansa Flight 540 was a scheduled commercial flight for Lufthansa operated with a Boeing 747-130, carrying 157 people ( 140 passengers and 17 crew members ).

This includes destinations served by subsidiaries Lufthansa CityLine and Lufthansa Regional as well as those operated on behalf of Lufthansa by Cirrus Airlines and PrivatAir.

Until 1991 Lufthansa was prohibited from flying to West Berlin, so Pan Am, British Airways, and Air France operated the routes between the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin.

In November 2011 Lufthansa announced to end the agreement with Contact Air and they will leave Lufthansa Regional ending all routes they have operated for Lufthansa by October 2012.

Flights under the " Lufthansa Regional " banner are operated by five partner airlines:

International scheduled services proved difficult to successfully establish until the late 2000s, when a weekly seasonal service between Düsseldorf and Inverness commenced in Summer 2009, operated by Lufthansa CityLine, and in 2011 when Flybe commenced daily operations to Amsterdam.

In addition there are several regional carrier such as OLT and Cirrus Airlines as well as cargo operator such as Lufthansa Cargo and Air Cargo Germany.

** Lufthansa heist: Six men rob a Lufthansa cargo facility in New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

In late 2005 / early 2006, Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic came forward about their involvement in large price-fixing schemes for cargo and passenger surcharges in which 21 airlines were involved since 2000 ( amongst which were British Airways, Korean Air, and Air France-KLM ).

A cargo centre was established in Copenhagen, initially with German carrier Lufthansa, however Maersk now operate the facility on their own.

* September 2007: DHL Express co-founds new cargo airline AeroLogic, based at Leipzig / Halle Airport, in a 50: 50 joint venture with Lufthansa Cargo.

* December 11 – Masked men rob the Lufthansa cargo handling area at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, New York, of $ 5 million in cash and $ 875, 000 in jewels newly flown in from West Germany in the largest cash robbery ever committed in the United States at the time.

Burke became famous as a result of the Lufthansa Heist, which involved the theft of approximately 6, 000, 000 dollars in cash and jewels from Building 261 at the Lufthansa cargo terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

A van containing the robbers and a " crash car " arrived at the Lufthansa cargo terminal at 3: 00 A. M.

Lufthansa Cargo AG is a cargo airline from Germany, operating worldwide air freight and logistics services on behalf of Lufthansa, of which it is a wholly owned subsidiary.

Lufthansa Cargo does not only offer space on its own freighters, but also has access to the cargo capacities of more than 300 Lufthansa passenger aircraft ( including Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and SunExpress )

Lufthansa is unique compared to its major European competitors like British Airways and Air France in that the cargo business is organized in an entirely different airline entity.

For some years, Lufthansa Cargo ( including the freight transported in the cargo holds of mainline Lufthansa passenger aircraft ) was the leading cargo airline in terms of international freight tonne-kilometres carried, but has meanwhile been surpassed by Cathay Pacific and Korean Air Cargo.