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How to reserve an entire 'sleeping row' in economy on your next flight — and at a discount, too
It's like sleeping on a cloud — literally.
Plane bounces on runway, aborts landing at LAX
Dramatic video captured a Lufthansa Airlines Boeing 747 twice bouncing off the runway in California before aborting its landing and taking back to the skies. The video from the April...
Passenger dies mid-flight after liters of 'blood erupts from his mouth and nose'
But after watching the man for a few moments, Missfelder — who is a nursing specialist at University Hospital in Zurich — informed a flight attendant that he needed to...
Frustrated Lufthansa pilot draws penis in the sky after flight was forced to divert
A Lufthansa pilot allegedly upset over being forced to divert his flight from Catania flew the commercial plane in a penis-shaped pattern before landing in Malta.
McConaughey wife on chaotic flight that fell '4K feet' after lightning strike
Matthew McConaughey’s wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, was among the passengers on board the Lufthansa flight was struck by severe turbulence Wednesday -- and has described the "chaos."
7 hurt after jet struck by lightning has sudden free fall, sending people flying
Seven people were hospitalized after a flight bound for Germany was struck by severe turbulence and made an emergency landing in Washington DC Wednesday night.
Grounded: Pilot strike prompts 800 Lufthansa cancellations
The mass cancellations were the result of a one-day strike by the pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit, which is trying to negotiate a 5.5% raise and automatic inflation increases.
Lufthansa flight for Frankfurt, Germany, diverts to Boston after cockpit fills with smoke
A Europe-bound flight was diverted to Boston's Logan International Airport due to smoke in the aircraft's cockpit.
Unbearable baggage: Cases of lost luggage skyrocketing at airports, leaving travelers in the dark
Cases of lost and delayed luggage are skyrocketing as travelers face unprecedented woes at airports across North America and Europe, according to a federal report.
Over 100 NYC Orthodox Jews get kicked off German flight over mask dispute
A group of about 100 Orthodox Jews says it was barred from boarding a flight in Germany because a few didn’t wear masks on the previous leg.
Lufthansa airline adopts gender-neutral ‘guests’ greeting
The company has begun instead referring to customers as “guests” or getting rid of the direct subject altogether and simply offering, “Good morning here on board.”
Airline crisis worsens over Europe travel restrictions amid coronavirus outbreak
Airlines bore the brunt of a dramatic expansion of the coronavirus crisis on Thursday, as President Trump's US travel curbs on much of continental Europe deepened the sector’s misery and...
JFK Airport's Terminal 1 launches facial recognition boarding
A biometric self-boarding gate has officially been launched at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 1, officials said Tuesday. Lufthansa has deployed the paperless, high-tech boarding process – which uses...
Man phones in fake bomb threat to get date with flight attendant
A 65-year-old Serbian man allegedly phoned in a fake bomb threat last week in the hope of keeping a flight attendant who refused a date with him in the country,...
Citing 'aviation terror' risk, UK suspends Cairo flights
Citing an unexplained “heightened risk of terrorism against aviation,’’ British Airways on Saturday suspended flights to Cairo for seven days. Lufthansa, the German airline, had a one-day suspension ending Sunday....
Love-struck student tries to track down ‘lovely' man she met on flight
A woman is desperately trying to track down the "lovely gentleman" she sat next to on her flight home to Seattle from Frankfurt, fearing she "may have missed her chance"...
Security guard at JFK Airport killed in elevator accident
A security guard was fatally crushed by an elevator at JFK Airport, law enforcement sources said Wednesday. Dillon Jobe, 40, was working at a Lufthansa cargo building at the Queens...
Lufthansa sues passenger for using 'hidden city' travel hack
Bargain-hunting travelers beware! Germany’s largest airline is suing a penny-pinching passenger — in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit — because he ditched his flight at a layover city to save some cash,...
'Goodfellas' mobster sentenced to 8 years in car arson case
He was never convicted in the 1978 “Goodfellas” Lufthansa heist at JFK Airport — but that didn’t stop a Brooklyn judge from using the case to wallop him with a...
Drone nearly collides with plane over Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES -- A drone came within 200 feet of hitting a Lufthansa jet near Los Angeles International Airport on Friday - the latest run-in between aircraft and the increasingly...