Lufthansa Airbus A321 nice Wing View during landing in Frankfurt [AirClips]

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, commonly known as Lufthansa (sometimes also as Lufthansa German Airlines), is a German airline and also the largest airline in Europe, both in terms of overall passengers carried and fleet size when combined with its subsidiaries. It operates services to 18 domestic destinations and 197 international destinations in 78 countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe, using a fleet of more than 280 aircraft.

Besides the actual airline named Lufthansa, Deutsche Lufthansa AG is also the parent company for several other airlines and further aviation-related branches, including Swiss International Air Lines, Austrian Airlines, Germanwings and Lufthansa Technik. With over 620 aircraft, it has one of the largest passenger airline fleets in the world when combined with its subsidiaries. In 2012, the entire Lufthansa Group carried over 103 million passengers.

Airline subsidiaries:

Wholly owned by Lufthansa

Austrian Airlines, the national airline of Austria, based in Schwechat, Austria.
Tyrolean Airways, once Austrian Airlines' regional carrier, now ACMI operator flying under the Austrian brand, until March 31, 2015, as part of new labour agreement.
Lufthansa Regional carriers:
Air Dolomiti, an airline headquartered in Villafranca di Verona, Italy.
Lufthansa CityLine
Germanwings, previously the low-cost subsidiary of Eurowings.
Eurowings, operating for Germanwings and former carrier of Lufthansa Regional.
Lufthansa Cargo, an air cargo company.
Swiss International Air Lines, the flag carrier airline of Switzerland with its head office at EuroAirport.
Edelweiss Air, an arm's of Swiss International Air Lines.
Swiss Global Air Lines

Partly owned by Lufthansa

AeroLogic, German cargo airline owned 50% by Lufthansa in joint venture with DHL.
Brussels Airlines: 45% owned by Lufthansa with an option to acquire the remaining shares in the future.
JetBlue Airways, 15.85% owned by Lufthansa.
Luxair, 14.44% owned by Lufthansa.
SunExpress, airline based in Antalya, Turkey; 50% owned by Lufthansa and the remaining owned by Star Alliance partner Turkish Airlines.
Lufthansa Commercial Holding, 19% owned by Lufthansa.

The Star Alliance is the world's largest global airline alliance, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and led by current CEO Mark Schwab. It was founded on May 14, 1997, with its name and emblem representing the five founding airlines (see the five airlines in the history section). Star Alliance has since grown considerably and its current membership includes 27 airlines which have more than 18,521 daily departures combined. These flights reach 1,321 airports in more than 193 countries, with an annual number of 637.6 million passengers.
On 14 May 1997, five airlines from three continents – Scandinavian Airlines, Thai Airways International, Air Canada, Lufthansa, and United Airlines came together to launch Star Alliance. The newly established alliance selected Young & Rubicam Advertising to increase awareness of the new alliance, with a budget of $25 million, (€18 million). The five airlines shared the traditional star logo from the beginning with the five points representing the five founding airlines. The alliance also adopted their first slogan "The Airline Network for Earth", with the goal to have "an alliance that will take passengers to every major city on earth".
VARIG joined the Star Alliance network, on 22 October 1997 making it the alliance's first "new" member and its gateway airline into South America.
In 3 May 1999, Ansett Australia and Air New Zealand both became members of the alliance, connecting the alliance to Australia and the Pacific. Upon the joining of the two carriers, Star Alliance served 720 destinations in 110 countries with a combined fleet of 1,650 aircraft.
All Nippon Airways joined the alliance in 15 October 1999, and became the group's second Asian airline.
In September 2001, Ansett Australia left the alliance due to bankruptcy which subsequently handed over a majority of the Australian market to Qantas, a rival Oneworld Alliance member. During this year Star Alliance also announced the appointment of their new CEO, Jaan Albrecht.