The Central Asian carrier Turkmenistan Airlines was banned from flying to the EU last week, stranding thousands of passengers.

A passenger is facing court action for buying a return ticket via Frankfurt to Seattle, business class, but not boarding the last leg.

Wizz Air has pushed past SAS into ninth place in a new list of Europe’s top 20 airline groups, with another carrier close behind.

The bigger airlines “are using the crisis among smaller carriers to entrench their positions by gaining taking market share”.

With 142 million passengers in 2018, up from 130 million in 2017, the group highlights its airlines’ achievements.

The new Panorama Lounge, which increases Terminal 1 lounge capacity by 40%, has a view of rolling aircraft.

The Swiss carrier used to fly for a while for SAS on the Stavanger-Houston and Copenhagen-New York routes.

The group is entering a phase of tighter capacity discipline, particularly heading into next summer.

The Lufthansa-Turkish Airlines venture SunExpress will fly to Göteborg Landvetter next summer.

The Lufthansa-Turkish Airlines joint venture has announced new routes and more frequencies for Oslo in summer 2019.

The German giant looks both east and west with new direct connections to the USA and Thailand for summer 2019.

The German carrier is shifting more aircraft to Munich from Frankfurt – and more routes and frequencies to Asia.

The airline will be celebrating the annual Oktoberfest beer festival with a special atmosphere on some of its flights.

FL Technics has been signed up for maintenance on 28 Airbus A320s during the coming year, starting in October.

Delights to Go is a six-month experiment with “high-quality gourmet boxes” for passengers with lounge access.

Lufthansa is building up the number of train stations in Germany where its passengers can travel “seamlessly”.

The north-Nordic destination of Tromsø gets another German connection, while other flights go far to the south.

Strikes, the weather and a “stressful” period at Eurowings weigh down the group’s latest quarterly results.

The ever-growing airline from Qatar starts wide-body Boeing 787-8 operations to Gothenburg in December 2018.

One face to the customer: Lufthansa Group integrates its sales activities in Africa for all its airlines.