'Delayed aircraft, delayed seats, delayed engines, unplanned engine overhauls,' etc., continue to bite at Lufthansa, said Group CEO Carsten Spohr on Tuesday.

The group has lowered its full year 2024 capacity forecast by 2 pts to ~92% of 2019 levels.

Departures 🛫

Munich, Terminal 2 (opened 2003), by Koch+Partner. 📷 Leonard Berberi. #airportarchitecture instagram.com/p/C6V97b7Osos/

.Secretary Pete Buttigieg notes Biden budget request calls for 2,000 new air traffic controllers and more safety inspectors reuters.com/world/us/biden…

Lufthansa Group CEO Carsten Spohr is confident on securing European approval for its partial takeover of ITA Airways this summer. Recent talks with regulators were described as 'constructive'. flightglobal.com/airlines/spohr…

Looking forward to William O'Connor's new newsletter on travel gettingaround.substack.com/?r=yr69&utm_ca…

Australia’s Bonza suspends flights: there were always questions if Australia could support more than 2 major airline groups.

But Bonza’s inception and challenges tied to unusual and complicated ownership structure. Owners needed airlines (Bonza, Flair, Eastar) to take aircraft.

The new Bengaluru airport Terminal 2: the “perfect gateway” to the garden city.

Good listen from Monocle Radio's The Urbanist podcast. #airportarchitecture monocle.com/radio/shows/th…

The fact that Rick Steves spends some of his precious little free time sitting on the side of a fountain in a roundabout protesting the lack of a car-free street (a 'piazza' as he puts it) in Edmonds, Wash., make me love him so much more.

via Natalie B. Compton washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/04…

Fellow Catan fans: A new board is dropping later this year that includes energy and climate change risks! Can't wait to play this. npr.org/2024/04/29/119…

Turkish Airlines has warned that “problems” at Boeing had held up negotiations over a major jet order as the carrier sealed a deal to deepen ties with the US manufacturer’s rival Airbus. ft.com/content/abde7c… w/ Sylvia Pfeifer

US House and Senate negotiators said they had reached a deal to boost air traffic controller staffing and boost funding to avert runway close-call incidents, but will not increase the airline pilot retirement age to 67 from 65 reut.rs/49WECmc

'The aesthetic transformation that made the sprawling suburbs of Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Boise look so similar to one another — and so similar to Southern California, in particular ... That was the work of Southern California homebuilders.'

Rick Steves is about 79324x more interesting than whatever you've assumed. Last month, I traveled to his hometown to learn more about the man behind the guidebooks. Read what I learned in my profile for the The Washington Post:

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Dulles mobile lounges getting a rehab.
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Lufthansa and ITA are willing to give up 11 slot pairs at Milan’s Linate airport in exchange for approval of their deal. EasyJet is in advanced talks to take the slots.

It’s 2:35 AM and we’re testing electric trains.

Eastside light rail line opens as huge crowds try out the ride. Reporter ⁦David Kroman⁩ is on the scene:

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