Taking-off with Lufthansa Group's Eurowings Discover

Eurowings Discover is the latest Lufthansa spin-off, trying to cash in on the rising return of leisure travel and bring innovation to the legacy group, reports Andreas Spaeth

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Wolfgang Raebiger, the CEO of Eurowings Discover, flies two rotations a month, logging approximately 400 flight hours per year
ANDREAS SPAETH
Eurowings Discover
Having made use of a well-established brand name, which CEO Wolfgang Raebiger said “nine out of ten Germans” knew, he hinted that a later name change is not completely ruled out

It’s an unassuming glass door opposite Frankfurt’s Terminal A – one that's easy to miss on your way to the train station and as you pass the Airport Center. But this door leads into a radically different airline world – different at least in terms of what Lufthansa Group carriers have ever been used to.

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