Issue 2/2018 Dear readers of the Lufthansa Policy Brief,
When it comes to aviation, safety takes top priority. This is why security checks at airports are and remain indispensable. A critical assessment of the situation, however, cannot ignore the fact that the practice of carrying out checks at most German airports is unnecessarily inefficient, time-consuming and burdensome. The Easter period was, once again, a bad example of this. Several thousand travelers missed their flight because the people carrying out the security checks were overwhelmed – especially at Frankfurt Airport.
In its coalition agreement, the Federal Government is now quite rightly taking countermeasures and wishes not only to restructure airport security checks in financial terms, but also to improve their quality in order to be more customer-friendly and to achieve a greater level of efficiency. Together with the other players in the aviation industry, Lufthansa is ready to act as a constructive partner and support the process. With our new Policy Brief, we would like to inform you about these and other topics. In addition, this issue is characterized by Lufthansa's new look. The blue is darker and more refined; the yellow serves as signal and orientation color. And the stylized crane – which, in 2018, is celebrating its centenary as the symbol of Lufthansa – is now a bit slimmer and by that more striking. We are seizing this as an opportunity to revise the design of the Policy Brief: In future, the articles will be even more compact and on one page only. And with our new "Lounge" category, we will, in the future, also provide space for fascinating stories, facts and figures of the aviation world beyond the realm of policies.
We both wish you happy reading!
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