Lufthansa and a union representing cabin crew have reached a pay deal, concluding the last of several major disputes that have led to recent strikes at Germany’s biggest airline and in the country’s wider aviation sector.

Millions of travelers across Germany are being affected by strikes again after two unions called for two-day walkouts over wages and work conditions.

An increased number of travelers in Germany have boarded trains and planes to avoid a major one-day strike Monday that aims to bring the country’s transportation system to a standstill.

Officials say a Lufthansa flight that experienced “significant turbulence” was diverted to Washington Dulles International Airport and seven people on board were taken to area hospitals.

The German news agency dpa is reporting that the websites of several German airports have been disrupted after what may have been a suspected hacker attack.

German carrier Lufthansa said Tuesday that it planned to improve its pay offer to pilots in an effort to avert a two-day strike this week that could cause significant disruption to travelers.

Hundreds of Lufthansa flights have been canceled as pilots stage a one-day strike to press their demands for better pay and conditions at Germany’s biggest carrier.

German carrier Lufthansa says it is canceling almost all passenger and cargo flights Friday from its two biggest hubs, Frankfurt and Munich, due to a planned strike by pilots.

Lufthansa and a union representing its ground staff in Germany have reached a deal to end a pay dispute, a week after a one-day strike that forced the airline to cancel more than 1,000 flights.

A union says pilots with Germany’s Lufthansa have voted in favor of possible strike action.

Lufthansa says it will have to cancel almost all flights at its main Frankfurt and Munich hubs Wednesday because of a strike by its German ground staff.

A German union has called on Lufthansa ground staff to walk out on a one-day strike Wednesday in a dispute over pay.

A beloved pet cat that’s been dodging airport and airline personnel as well as animal experts since escaping from a pet carrier at Boston’s Logan International Airport about three weeks ago has finally been caught.

Emirates and Lufthansa are temporarily suspending flights to Miami International Airport amid a series of nationwide delays and cancellations on Wednesday over technological conflicts between airlines and wireless network operators.

German airline Lufthansa says it has received the green light from Russia to resume flights there, after being briefly denied permission, which resulted in a reciprocal blocking of flights by Germany.

Lufthansa starts the first test runs for comprehensive Covid-19 antigen rapid tests on selected routes between Munich and Hamburg. But authorities said Thursday that hospitals are crowded and are likely to face further strain in the coming weeks. But the number of people infected per 100,000 has been dropping for 10 days, and the number of virus patients is hospitals is expected to peak early next week, French officials reported. As of Wednesday, there were at least 3,127 COVID-19 patients in intensive care in Germany. Passengers weren't charged for the test but were told to arrive an hour earlier to allow time for the results.

FRANKFURT – German airline Lufthansa says it will test the practice of offering on-the-spot coronavirus tests before boarding intercontinental flights in an attempt to find a way to get long-haul passengers flying again. The tests on some routes to the U.S. are to begin in October and the practice will depend on government approval. The company said the routes to the U.S. had not been decided yet. The tests would be a way around the different quarantine requirements, such as Germany’s rule that arrivals from areas designated as high-risk must quarantine for 14 days. Those rules, while they can help contain the spread of the virus, are a major deterrent to air travel, industry representatives say.

German airline Lufthansa, already bailed out by the government, says it will have to make more staff cuts and mothball more jumbo jets than originally planned because the outlook for air travel is worse than the company first predicted. The company said Monday it would have to drop more than the already announced 22,000 full-time positions, without saying how many more. The airline will also pull its remaining eight Airbus A380 jets out of service and put them in long-term storage, along with 10 four-engine A340-600 aircraft. It said it was hoping to reduce cash burn to 400 million euros ($470 million) a month this winter from 500 million euros a month presently. Lufthansa has secured a 9 billion euro ($10.6 billion) bailout from the German government.

Especially for long-haul routes there will be no quick recovery, CEO Carsten Spohr said in a statement accompanying the quarterly earnings statement. Lufthansa said it carried 96% fewer passengers during the April-June quarter and experienced an 80% drop in revenue, to 1.9 billion euros from 9.6 billion euros in the same quarter a year earlier. The cargo division made a profit of 299 million euros, up from 9 million a year ago. Lufthansa has started flying short-haul vacation flights but in July its offerings reached only around 20% of last year's level. It said short and medium haul capacity would increase to 40% in the third quarter and long-haul capacity to 20%.

But some of the push toward online shopping may become permanent. Online sales have soared nearly 470%. CANNED FOODS OUT, CLOTHING IN: It appears that pandemic-driven online shopping is shifting from the pantry to the closet as millions prepare to emerge from lockdown. The number of people that purchased groceries online dropped from 31% last week to 29% this week, according to a Coresight Research survey. At the same time, Coresight said the focus for those shopping online has shifted to clothing.

All rights reserved)BERLIN German airline Lufthansa says 22,000 full-time jobs may need to be cut worldwide due to the drop in demand for flights caused by the coronavirus pandemic. That's more than twice the number of jobs that the airline, which says it has over 135,000 employees, previously said might need to be axed. Lufthansa, which also owns Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines, said it expects to have about 100 planes fewer in operation after the pandemic. Lufthansa has agreed to a 9 billion-euro ($10 billion) bailout plan that would give a government stabilization fund a 20% stake in the airline. Existing shareholders need to approve the bailout at an extraordinary meeting on June 25.

Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images(CNN) - A strike by flight attendants forced Lufthansa to cancel 1,300 flights on Thursday and Friday, disrupting the travel plans of 180,000 customers. Lufthansa said in a statement that it was operating "a special flight plan" as a result of the strike. Frankfurt Airport's departure board showed that flights to the United States, India and Canada were among those canceled. Lufthansa said that it would enter talks with striking unions, including the Independent Flight Attendants Organization (UFO), which is locked in a dispute with the airline over its legal status. The strikes will not affect other airlines in the Lufthansa group, such as Brussels Airlines, Austrian Airlines and low-cost carrier Eurowings.

Created as part of a collaboration between Lufthansa, traveler loyalty program Miles & More GmbH and Lufthansa Technik, the Lufthansa Upcycling Collection is made from parts of the plane, which was withdrawn after 10 years of service. "The special thing about the Lufthansa Upcycling Collection is that something of the aircraft's spirit can be preserved," says Sebastian Riedle, spokesperson and managing director of Miles & More GmbH. It took nearly 10 weeks to dismantle the 75-meter-long airplane into pieces small enough to create the Lufthansa Upcycling Collection. Repurposing aircraft parts as quality goods is getting increasingly popular as the airline industry moves towards becoming more eco-friendly. Airbus released a line of furniture and home accessories made from upcycled aircraft parts via online shop A Piece of Sky earlier this year.

Here goes: Theres a concept, or a practice, called hidden-city ticketing, that some people swear by. If you fly frequently enough, or the savings really mean that much to you, it might be worth a shot. Just a warning ...Dont say we necessarily recommend this hidden-city ticketing practice. A travel industry website called Skift reiterated that hidden-city ticketing is not new -- and said sophisticated travelers have known about this hack for a long time. And now, United Airlines is asking its employees to report customers to corporate security, if they book using the ticketing trick, according to Skift.

Stuart C. Wilson/Getty ImagesBritish Airways announced Saturday that flights to Cairo were being canceled for seven days as tensions escalated over Iran's seizure of a British tanker. The flights were canceled "as a precaution to allow for further assessment," the UK airline said in a statement. In a statement released on its official Facebook page on Saturday, Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation said it is in talks with the British Embassy in Egypt about British Airways' decision. The decision to suspend flights was not "issued by the British Ministry of Transport or the British Foreign Office," the statement said. Lufthansa, Germany's largest airline, said Saturday that flights to Cairo were suspended, but reported later Saturday flights would resume on Sunday.