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Old 15th Oct 2017, 09:59
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it seems pprune really is UK orientated.

Many inner german routes will now only have lufthansa or eurowings flying the route. Previously air berlin competed on such routes.

Carsten Spohr (Lufthansa CEO) stated this week that passengers have no need to worry about price hikes on such routes as eurowings and lufthansa will be competing. He obviously also thinks the general public are as intelligent as heathrow harry.

The sell off of parts of air berlin is also very interesting as lufthansa have been allowed to cherry pick exactly what they want unchallenged. Easyjet are still in discussions but are reportedly unhappy at the slots lufthansa have left them and have therefore reduced the size of their offer. Discussions continue.

Lufthansa are also championing as fact they saved around 3,000 jobs at Niki and LGW as a result of the takeover. Niki and LGW did not declare bankruptcy and are going concerns. So some strange logic in use there as well.
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