Coming in second, in a four-way tie for second place, were Lufthansa, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and EasyJet.
Last week, Lufthansa rejected union demands for a 5.2% wage increase over the next 12 months.
And Germany's Lufthansa, whose ground crew and cabin staff are on strike over pay, fell 3%.
Lufthansa ( DLAKY - news - people ) spokesman said in Frankfurt.
He took the last Lufthansa flight to Berlin and arrived at the chancellery around 10 p.m.
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It is based loosely on what the car maker does with Lufthansa in Germany.
Lufthansa embraced seat manufacturer Recaro's pioneering design, purchasing 32, 000 new seats across the fleet.
Now, possibly with Lufthansa, it is negotiating to buy a 10% stake in Thai Airlines.
The union had estimated that the strike would cost Lufthansa 5m euros a day.
Lufthansa is doing something similar, by using its partners in the Star alliance as a market.
Striking airline workers, claiming a rise of 9.8%, have grounded scores of Lufthansa flights this week.
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"It's completely out of proportion, " a Lufthansa spokesman was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.
The carrier, of course, faces competitors for international travel, including UAL's embattled primary business United Airlines and Lufthansa.
Korean Air and VIP customers have joined launch customer Lufthansa in ordering a total of 33 747-8 Intercontinentals.
Lufthansa said the pay settlement, which ends in February 2010, represented " a compromise at the bearable limit".
So too are its partners in Star, the largest of the international airline alliances, Lufthansa and Air Canada.
For some time now Lufthansa's first-class passengers, and guests at German luxury hotels, have been offered organic food.
United and Lufthansa are showing transatlantic traffic increases of 20% to 30%, more than double the rest of the European airlines.
German airline Lufthansa has cancelled the majority of its flights scheduled for Monday due to a strike over pay.
"The Asian airlines operate with costs that are half that of Emirates and a third of Lufthansa's, " he says.
With the plane comes Lufthansa's new business class, which will be retrofitted on the rest of the airline's fleet.
Buckenburg acknowledges not all markets can support first class, and in those, Lufthansa offers only business and coach service.
Lufthansa can carry 386 passengers on its 747-8 in its 8-80-298 (first-business-economy) arrangement.
In 1977, three Palestinian hijackers were killed when a German anti-terrorist squad stormed a Lufthansa aircraft at Mogadishu Airport.
Lufthansa Cargo is one of the many carriers that help to deliver romance.
Lufthansa's pilots have been seeking parity with their colleagues in the German airline's American alliance partner, the open-handed United.
Having held a stake in BMI since 2001, Lufthansa took over the whole of BMI only two years ago.
And it is plotting, again with Lufthansa, to invest in South African Airways.
Lufthansa, which already services its smaller planes at Malta's airport, plans to tend to its widebody fleet there as well.
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In 1997, United Airlines, Lufthansa, and Air Canada partnered together and formed Star Alliance, the first modern-day airline alliance.
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