About The Company
Lufthansa Airlines is the largest airline carrier in Germany and the second largest in Europe behind KLM Airlines. The companies headquarters is at Cologne with their main base of operations at Frankfurt International Airport. A secondary operations center is based at Munich International Airport. Lufthansa Airlines also took over Swiss International Air Lines and will soon make their third operation center at Zurich Airport.

Lufthansa Airlines started the Star Alliance which is the largest alliance of airlines in the world. In 1997 the Star Alliance was formed and it currently has a total amount of eighteen airlines. Lufthansa Airlines has a total of four hundred fleet aircraft and over a hundred thousand employees. In the year 2006 the company have over fifty-three million passengers fly on their airline.

Lufthansa Airlines History: -
Lufthansa Airlines was started in Berlin in 1926 and they started using their current name in 1933. An agreement on behalf of the German government was signed with Spain on December 9, 1927 to authorize air service flights between the two countries. Included in this agreement was a capital investment that later started an air company called Iberia.

Lufthansa Airlines became one of the leading airlines in the years leading up to World War Two. They were one of the airlines that pioneered service to the Far East including flights across the North and South Atlantic. Lufthansa Airlines could only maintain flights to neutral countries during World War Two and in 1945 when Germany was defeated all services of the airline were suspended.

On January 6, 1953 Lufthansa Airlines was recreated. Schedule service within Germany was resumed by the airline in 1955 with international operations following just a month later to differently locations in Europe. Then in June 1955 the company started a service flight to New York with the Super Constellations built by Lockheed. In 1956 the company once again started flight routes over the South Atlantic.

The Lufthansa Airlines operated out of West Germany and a dispute started in the 1950s when East Germany attempt to start their own airline named Lufthansa. Eventually East Germany changed the name of their airline to Interflug and eventually ended all their operations in 1991. Until the communist regime ended in Germany, all flights into West Berlin were banned.

The company underwent major modifications in 1985 when they ordered a new fleet of Airbus aircraft. Flights to Berlin were reestablished in 1990. Swiss Airlines merged with Lufthansa Airlines in 2005, yet the two companies continue to operate independently of each other.