Word: lufthansa
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...that companies in competing industrial countries have similar problems. In Western Europe, where air travel increased 8% in 1987 and is expected to jump more than 7% this year, terminals have become mob scenes. At Munich's airport one day this summer, congestion prompted officials to cancel 27 of Lufthansa's 59 domestic flights. A prime cause of the crunch is Europe's fractured air-control system, which is composed of 42 separate civilian control centers, plus additional military jurisdictions...
...safety of jets outside the U.S. varies from better to worse. Many airlines in South America, Africa and Asia adhere to standards lower than those in the U.S. But the northern European carriers, among them Lufthansa, KLM, SAS and Swissair, have been investing heavily in new planes and seem to be driven by what an industry expert describes as a "Germanic passion for technical perfection." Lufthansa, which already has a fleet averaging just 6.2 years old, last March ordered 20 new Boeing 737s and took options on 20 more at a potential cost of $1 billion. Also renowned: Australia...
...effort has been plagued by setbacks. The partnership initially claimed that the new engine, called the V2500, would be 14% more fuel efficient than its GE counterpart, but that estimate has been scaled back to 9%. Moreover, the V2500 lost a major customer in February, when West Germany's Lufthansa, citing technical flaws, canceled an order for 40 engines and turned to the CFM56. Now Pratt & Whitney is staking its comeback on its new large engine, the PW4000, for which it has won orders from Singapore Airlines and Korean Air. Says Selwyn Berson, head of the firm's commercial-engine...
...least 25% more Americans are expected to vacation in Western Europe this year than in 1986, and the numbers may go much higher. During the first four months of this year, Lufthansa Airlines carried 32% more passengers from the U.S. to Europe than it did a year ago, and warm weather had yet to arrive on much of the Continent. Sales of American Express vacations in Europe are up 70% over last year, suggesting the possibility that 1987 may come close to matching the record travel year of 1985, when 6.5 million Americans spent $6 billion on European travel. Says...
...virtually empty Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt, a relaxed, subdued Daniloff sipped champagne and talked with reporters. The next morning he boarded a flight for Washington. The movie on board was the felicitously titled Sweet Liberty. The crowd of newsmen that awaited him at Dulles Airport rivaled one that might have gathered for, say, a European head of state. Daniloff's daughter Miranda, 23, handed her parents a dozen yellow roses and a bottle of champagne. Then, her eyes welling up with tears, she pinned a single rose on her father's lapel. His son Caleb presented him with...