For the months of April and May, Ryanair said it expects to reduce its seat capacity by up to 80%. It said a full grounding of its fleet cannot be ruled out.

Shares in Europe's leading airline groups - including Ryanair and Aer Lingus-owner IAG - plummeted on the back of a profit warning from German carrier Lufthansa.

Shares in cash-strapped travel firm Thomas Cook jumped after Lufthansa confirmed it has made a bid for Condor, the UK Group's German airline arm.

Lufthansa shares sank nearly 7% — and the most in four and a half months — after the German airline cut its growth plans after a slide in fares and higher fuel costs weighed on 2018 earnings.

A passenger jet made an emergency landing at Dublin Airport this morning after the crew reported damage to one of their aircraft’s windshields.

Ryanair is confident of expanding its route network further this year, after announcing its entry into the Turkish market.

Lufthansa has said its likely purchase of the bulk of Air Berlin will make it “very well positioned” to compete better with Ryanair across Europe, even though it will still have an inferior share of the market.

Lufthansa is preparing a €500m bid for large parts of bankrupt Italian carrier Alitalia, including the fleet, pilots, air crew and air slots, it is reported.

Lufthansa has submitted a letter of interest in Air Berlin’s Austrian budget airline Niki and other parts of the insolvent carrier, according to sources.

Lufthansa chief Carsten Spohr expects France and Germany to take a hard line against the UK aviation industry in Brexit negotiations, threatening to disrupt flight connections across Europe.

Lufthansa said a slide in fares triggered by excess capacity is beginning to slow, easing the burden on earnings as fuel costs rise.

German airline Lufthansa and a union representing its pilots have agreed to bring in an arbitrator in the hope of reaching a new wage settlement by the end of January.

Lufthansa has said it is not overly concerned with Ryanair’s aggressive growth plans for the German market and that it has the quality and competitive offering via its Eurowings subsidiary to compete with the Irish carrier.

German airliner Lufthansa is set to almost double the number of flights on Dublin-Munich route.

Germany's largest airline has cancelled 890 flights today as pilots continue to strike in a row over wages.

Lufthansa flights are being grounded again today due to an ongoing strike by pilots.

Irish passengers will be among those hit by today's strike by Lufthansa pilots.

Ryanair has confirmed plans to move into Lufthansa’s home hub of Frankfurt, stepping up its push into bigger airports and ratcheting up pressure on the German carrier which is expanding its own budget flights.

Lufthansa has given a gloomy outlook for the key summer season and said it would focus on reducing costs after attacks in Europe deterred passengers from booking trips, creating price pressure for the German airline and its European rivals.

Lufthansa said passenger fares are set to erode further this year as it grapples with unions over a restructuring of European operations aimed at stemming the flow of customers to discount rivals. The shares fell as much as 7.1% yesterday.

Lufthansa has cancelled 895 flights scheduled for Wednesday from six German airports as government workers called short-term strikes in the run-up to wage discussions later this week.

Lufthansa’s supervisory board is to meet on April 27 to discuss buying the 55% of Brussels Airlines which it does not yet own, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported yesterday.

A German cabin crew union has called on its members to walk out on all Lufthansa flights from Wednesday.

German airline Lufthansa said it was cancelling 126 long-haul and 10 shorter flights as a cabin crew strike went into its fourth day.

All-day strikes by Lufthansa cabin crew at three German airports will lead to 929 domestic and international flights being cancelled, the airline has said.

German airline Lufthansa has announced it will need to cancel numerous outgoing flights from Frankfurt and Duesseldorf airports due to a cabin crew strike.

The Lufthansa Technik group of companies in Ireland last year recorded pre-tax profits of $77m (€70.3m) following the closure of one of its units.

A group of parents whose children were killed in the Germanwings plane crash have released a scathing letter to Lufthansa’s chief executive, accusing him of ignoring their needs and feelings and insulting them with his company’s compensation offer.

A Lufthansa plane almost collided with a drone as it approached Warsaw international airport, Polish officials have revealed.

German police are looking into whether a woman claimed to be a relative of a victim of last month’s Germanwings crash to get free flights to southern France.

Lufthansa has indicated that it was under no obligation to report to Germany’s national aviation authority the fact that Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz suffered from depression several years ago.

The heads of Lufthansa and its low-cost airline Germanwings are visiting the site of the crash that killed 150 people, amid mounting questions about the co-pilot and how much his employers knew about his mental health.

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A video of the last moments on the doomed Germanwings plane has been found on a mobile phone memory card at the crash site in the French Alps, according to reports.

Lufthansa says its insurers are setting aside $300m (€276.45m) to deal with possible costs resulting from the French Alps crash in which 150 people died.

Lufthansa is offering immediate aid of up to €50,000 (£36,500) per passenger to relatives of the Germanwings crash that killed 150 people.

Lufthansa could face “unlimited” compensation claims for the crash that killed 150 people in the French Alps and it would be difficult, even counter-productive, for the German carrier to try to avoid liability, experts say.

Germanwings has been forced to cancel seven flights out of Dusseldorf because some crew members felt they were unfit to fly after the French Alps plane crash.