Rudi, while I hope that there are some differences between the army secret service and Lufthansa, I can assure you that the company is both infiltrated by guys willing to talk to the media and especially guys simply frustrated like hell about not being promoted since years who will not miss a chance to tell you everything that goes wrong within LH.

Lots of minor problems between UAL and LH at the moment, LH took over more and more control from UAL during the last years ( * just to be steered by both with a slight upper hand by LH, now UAL is clearly in the back seat ) and UAL wants to get something back, is aggressively talking to LH volume contract companies, opens routes to the Near East just to name two recent examples.

Officially both parties are certainly married happily and enjoy sharing revenue etc. ...