•Grounded planes of German airline Lufthansa at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany Hundreds of Lufthansa flights were cancelled today as pilots kicked off a strike over pay and pensions, the latest walkout at the German aviation giant this year. Half of all long-distance flights and two-thirds of short-haul services were c...
German aviation giant Lufthansa warned today it faced a more uncertain outlook because of the unfolding Middle East conflict, and that the fallout showed how vulnerable air traffic remains to geopolitical shocks. The war — which began last weekend with US-Israeli attacks on Iran, triggering retaliatory strikes from the Islamic Republic — has c...

