Lufthansa’s short-haul subsidiary City Airlines has started flight operations at its main hub at Frankfurt Airport.
Lufthansa City Airlines, which first launched services in summer 2024 from Munich, is now offering flights from Frankfurt to Manchester, Berlin, Valencia, Düsseldorf and Málaga.
The airline was set up to operate feeder flights with a lower cost base to serve Lufthansa’s main hubs at Munich and Frankfurt airports.
Lufthansa said in a statement that City Airlines would “gradually” add more routes this summer from Frankfurt, including to London Heathrow, Stockholm, Bilbao, Hamburg, Helsinki, Marseille and Bucharest. The airline expects to have a fleet of seven Airbus A320neo aircraft based at Frankfurt by September 2026.
Peter Albers, chief operating officer of Lufthansa City Airlines, said: “With our new base and the targeted expansion of our short-haul network, we are simultaneously strengthening our market position and laying the foundation for further growth within the group.”
The subsidiary already operates 13 aircraft from Munich and carried around two million passengers during 2025. The carrier, which currently employs around 450 people, said it is “actively” recruiting staff as it expands operations.