Hugo Rauch

Hugo spent twelve years at aero International magazine in Hamburg, mostly covering the Lufthansa Group, before going independent in 2022. His readers know him for the long-form annual review of LH operational data that he still publishes once a year out of a sense of professional obligation.

He writes for airport.flights as a paid freelance contributor, one to two pieces a month focused on Central European hubs, the Lufthansa Group as a structural entity, and the small operational differences between the hubs that travelers experience as identical. His beat is the precision view of carrier strategy expressed through the airports where it gets executed.

He lives in Sachsenhausen, flies FRA constantly, and remains the only person of his acquaintance who genuinely enjoys ZRH as a transit airport.