The Lufthansa Group’s airlines are “significantly expanding”
their services, both within Europe and abroad, starting with the June flight
schedule, according to the company.
Lufthansa, Swiss and Eurowings are adding more destinations
back into their schedules, offering more than 106 destinations in Germany and
Europe, as well as more than 20 international routes. By the end of June, the
group’s airlines plan to offer around 1,800 weekly return flights to more than
130 destinations worldwide.
In the first half of June, Lufthansa will restart flights
from Frankfurt to Hanover, Majorca, Sofia, Prague, Billund, Nice, Manchester,
Budapest, Dublin, Riga, Krakow, Bucharest and Kyiv. From Munich, it will resume
flying to Munster/Osnabruck, Sylt, Rostock, Vienna, Zurich, Brussels and
Majorca.
It is also planning to start slights from Frankfurt to
Toronto, Mexico City, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Tel Aviv, Riyadh, Bahrain,
Johannesburg, Dubai and Mumbai, and from Munich to Chicago, Los Angeles and Tel
Aviv, subject to potential travel restrictions in individual countries.
Swiss is planning to resume services to various destinations
in the Mediterranean region, as well as Paris, Brussels and Moscow. Long-haul
operations will include Zurich to New York JFK, Chicago, Singapore, Bangkok,
Tokyo, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Johannesburg, in addition to the existing flights
to New York/Newark.
Meanwhile, Eurowings is expanding its basic programme at
Dusseldorf, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg and Stuttgart, gradually adding 15 further
destinations within Europe from this month including Spain, Greece, Portugal
and Croatia.
Austrian Airlines will continue the suspension of all
operations until 7 June, with a resumption after that date being considered.
Brussels Airlines is planning to restore services from 15 June.
Lufthansa is still in negotiations with the German
government over a €9 billion funding package and earlier this week published
details of all of its offshore companies following requests from politicians to
explain why it has subsidiaries in so-called “tax havens”.