[Grammar] Thanks to Lufthansa pilots & Thanks to Lufthansa's pilots

[Oleksii]

Please could you advise what variant is correct and why?
- Thanks to Lufthansa pilots;
- Thanks to Lufthansa's pilots.

 

[emsr2d2]

They're both correct in BrE and mean the same.

 

[Skrej]

The first one doesn't work as a stand alone sentence with that semicolon, however. You'd have to add another clause explaining what the pilots are to be thanked for, and change the semicolon to a comma.

"Thanks to Lufthansa pilots, we arrived at our destination safe and sound ahead of schedule."

As far as that goes, the second one is hard to view as a complete sentence as well, other than some kind of general "thank you' to pilots.


If you're using both of them as precursors as to why the pilots deserve thanks, then I agree they carry the same meaning.