>Lufthansa, of course, gets it all wrong…..

But it wasn’t always like that.

Back in the Dark Ages, we had the (almost) perfectly PC team.

Even the most innocuous statement had a fair chance of offending at least one of us …

Walter Scheel : Ossi (and in those days a “Must Have” if you had ambitions of being recognised as an Equal Opportunity employer)

Andreas Mann: Jewish

Sabine Grebe: Female

JB: The token Ausländer

And – this is the “almost” – Dieter Pannek: WASP, married, 2 kids, straight.

The issue of his lack of diversity did crop up on occasion, but he remained unconvinced……