Lufthansa’s Global Descent: From Proud Crane to World-Weary Pigeon
The Crane That Shrank: Lufthansa’s Global Glide from Flag-Carrier to Flagellant By Our Correspondent, Somewhere above the North Atlantic with a plastic cup of “Château de Terminal” There was a time—ask anyone who still clutches a battered Senator card like a rosary—when Lufthansa’s stylized crane suggested something almost mythic: an airborne Teutonic phoenix, immaculately on…