Frankfurt, Germany

As it was announced in July 2017, airline Lufthansa will inaugurate this Thursday, March 29, 2018 its non-stop flight between Frankfurt, Germany and San Jose, Costa Rica. Back when the announcement was made, Tamur Goudarzi-Pour, vice-president of Sales for the Americas of Lufthansa had stated: ...

Covington wades into Germany with Frankfurt launch. By Gabriella Kane 28 March 2018 10:00 28 March 2018 09:49. Covington & Burling is to open its first office in Germany next month with the hire of a six-partner team, The Lawyer can reveal. Premium content. This article is only available to Premium subscribers of The ...

German data center operator e-shelter has acquired the location for its fourth data center campus in Frankfurt, one of Europe's most important infrastructure hubs. The upcoming colocation site will be built in phases; the first out of five buildings will offer 9.7MW of power capacity and is expected to open its ...

Frankfurt was awash artistic displays of lights last week during the biannual Luminale Festival of Light. Launched in 2000, the festival is held at the same time as Light + Building, an industrial trade fair focused on lighting and electrical engineering. Buildings around Frankfurt, from skyscrapers to private ...

This week in photos: Trump's royal guest, Lavrov's birthday cake and Frankfurt's fiesta. Society & .... Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince visits the White House, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov celebrates his birthday with a soccer ball shaped cake in Japan, Frankfurt's light festival and other photographs of the week.

Shares of Deutsche Bank's DWS edged higher in their stock market debut on the Frankfurt stock exchange, with the listing likely to galvanize the mood among other pending German flotations. Germany's largest lender is selling 22.5 percent of the company, which has assets worth more than 700 billion ...

In summer 2018, 99 airlines will fly from Frankfurt Airport (FRA) to 311 destinations in 97 countries around the world. The new summer flight schedule will take effect on March 25. Next to additional long-haul routes, it will also introduce a number of new connections from Frankfurt to European connections.

Wide-body aircraft and improved departure times make these connections even more attractive for travelers, while the early-morning arrival in Frankfurt gives passengers access to the entire range of Lufthansa flights to destinations around the world. With this change, Lufthansa is reacting to increased ...

In summer 2018, 99 airlines will fly from Frankfurt Airport (FRA) to 311 destinations in 97 countries around the world. The new summer flight schedule will take effect on March 25. Next to additional long-haul routes, it will also introduce a number of new connections from Frankfurt to European connections.

Condor, a smaller German airline, had begun offering nonstop service between San Diego and Frankfurt for up to three days a week last summer but then announced it would discontinue the flights by the end of last September. The announcement came not long after Lufthansa said it would begin service of ...

Big banks, trade fairs, and sterile skyscrapers: That's the landscape that comes to mind when most people think of Frankfurt. And, while it's true that Frankfurt is Germany's suit-filled business capital – nearly one in five residents works in the financial sector – the city has become increasingly cool, with ...

Tracks 18 to 24 in the north part of Frankfurt's main train station will be affected, with trains directed to other parts of the station from 11pm to 5am on Wednesday morning. Deutsche Bahn employees will also be present to redirect travellers to the correct platform. The police will be drilled on potential ...

"From April there will be sizeable moves" by banks setting up shop in the city on the Main river, Hubertus Vaeth of Frankfurt Main Finance, which helps advise banks on such shifts, told AFP. Financial supervisor BaFin is handling more than 10 requests for German banking licenses, a spokesman for the ...

The bank reportedly has alerted its bankers that the employees affected by a move will be notified in coming months. Switzerland's largest bank will shift most of the staff who will have to move as a consequence of Brexit to Frankfurt, according to a report by «Reuters», which was based on a memo sent to ...

VMware has started planning to bring its Amazon Web Services tie-up to Australia and Japan. The company last week made a bunch of cloud announcements about its cloudy future, including a promise that it would get to Western Europe and the Asia Pacific region some time soon. But The Register has ...

Michy Batshuayi came off the bench to score a stoppage time winner as Borussia Dortmund snatched a dramatic 3-2 victory over top six rivals Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday. Danny Blum looked to have sealed a draw for Frankfurt with an equaliser a minute into time added on, but Batshuayi had the last ...

A pensioner's trip to Thailand was ruined last week when he decided to drink two bottles of wine which didn't get through a security check at Frankfurt Airport. The 67-year-old German citizen was not allowed to board his flight last Thursday due to excessive alcohol consumption, the federal police ...

Best growth in decades, but much deja vu in Frankfurt and Tokyo ... Looking at core inflation rates in early 2018 and just about any recent year, an outside observer unfamiliar with the mind-bending sums of asset purchases undertaken via Frankfurt and Tokyo would be forgiven for not noticing anything was ...

Frankfurt can offer even greater advantages for property buyers, however. The city is expected to be the biggest winner from Brexit, the United Kingdom's landmark vote to leave the European Union in 2016 that shook investor confidence in traditional favorite London. Frankfurt's property markets have ...

Peter Feldmann was re-elected mayor of Frankfurt on Sunday with 71 percent of the vote, ensuring he will hold the reins of power in the finance city until 2024. The Social Democrat ... Roughly half a million people in Frankfurt were eligible to vote, including over 80,000 non-German residents. However only ...

Michy Batshuayi scored deep in injury time for Borussia Dortmund to beat Eintracht Frankfurt 3-2 and return to third place in the Bundesliga on Sunday. The visitors were expecting a share of the points after Danny Blum's injury-time equalizer, but there was still time for Batshuayi - who was dropped from the ...

The moves are expected to affect fewer than 200 UBS staff, a source familiar with the plans told Reuters. UBS employs around 5,000 people in London. Staff affected will be informed in the next few months and relocations will depend on where clients are based, according to a company memo seen by ...

Two years after taking over relegation-threatened Eintracht Frankfurt, Niko Kovac is on the verge of taking the side into the Champions League. It would be the German club's first appearance in Europe's premier competition since the European Cup final in 1960, a spectacular game won 7-3 by Real Madrid.

Investment bank Goldman Sachs has warned more than a dozen City trading and sales staff that they should be prepared to move to Frankfurt within weeks. City Am understands that the staff set to move are in the bank's debt capital markets and derivatives teams working on German accounts. They have ...

Frankfurt has the perfect blend of both traditional architecture and modern skyscrapers, and is often dubbed Main-hattan for precisely this reason. It's not just the Christmas markets that make this city, it's the summer when it comes alive. Experience the old town, picnic in the Palmengarten, try some authentic ...

The world's first benchmark for green financial centres was launched last week by Climate-KIC, the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE), and PwC. The benchmark is designed to measure and assess how the main financial centres for the G7 countries - Frankfurt, London, Milan, New York, Paris, Tokyo, ...

A court in Frankfurt has had a warrant for the man's arrest open for about one year. “He was believed to be travelling with somebody to Istanbul when he was arrested at the airport on Friday,'' federal police spokesman Reza Ahmari said. The man took part in a Koran distribution campaign in and around ...

With their 1-0 win over Hannover in Commerzbank Arena on Saturday, Frankfurt increased their chances of returning to European competition for the first time in six seasons. Their victory bumped them up to fourth place in the tight race for second, way adrift of Bayern Munich. The Eagles were in a similar ...

Boateng missed out on last week's defeat to Stuttgart due to suspension, after having fired Frankfurt to victory over Leipzig the week before. One of the surprises of the season, Frankfurt are currently in fourth, just a point ahead of Bayer Leverkusen. Against Hanover, they will once again be without Omar ...

A liberal attitude to sub-letting would also befit the city's cosmopolitan nature, as last year almost 200,000 travellers from Frankfurt themselves rented out their flats through Airbnb, according to the CEO. But the city's planning department had a different view. “Apartments are not a substitute for hotels," Mike ...

Feldmann of the Social Democrats (SPD) considerably improved on his vote tally in the 2012 election, but would have needed 50 percent of the ballots to be immediately reaffirmed as Frankfurt mayor. Instead he will face Bernadette Weyland of the Christian Democrats in a second round on March 11th after ...

For its central location, Frankfurt is known as the “Gateway to Europe" — and travelers often only pass through, using it as a transit point to other major destination cities. More recently, however, Frankfurt has been going by a different moniker, which refers to the city's emerging position as an exciting new ...

Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered are said to be close to starting the relocation of small numbers of staff to Frankfurt, above, as the banks begin to execute pre-Brexit contingency plans. A top Goldman Sachs executive said yesterday that the Wall Street investment bank would be “moving senior ...

Scaling the Bundesliga heights and filled with drive and ambition to outdo each other when it comes to the final say in the standings this season, Borussia Dortmund are set to host a mouth-watering game against Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday (kick-off 18:00CET/17:00GMT/12:00ET).) Stay tuned right here ...