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Lufthansa jets at Frankfurt Airport
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After the onset of the pandemic, the Lufthansa Group is now flying to around 280 destinations around the world again.
This corresponds to around 88 percent of the network in 2019, as a company spokesman for the dpa-AFX news agency announced on request.
It is planned to offer almost all destinations again in September that were also bookable in 2019.
When rebuilding its route network, Lufthansa is relying primarily on its largest hub in Frankfurt.
From here, 150 destinations can be flown to directly in September.
That is 30 destinations more than in 2019 before the Corona crisis, which had meanwhile almost brought air traffic to a standstill.
Above all, the short and medium-haul destinations, which are more popular with tourists, were also added to the Frankfurt flight schedule.
In addition, there are 130 other destinations that the group, which also includes Eurowings, Swiss, Austrian and Brussels Airlines, flies to from other airports.
Weaker timing
On many connections, however, the jets are less frequent than they were before the Corona crisis.
According to the flight safety organization Eurocontrol, the core brand Lufthansa completed an average of 822 flights per day in the past week (16-22 August): around 46 percent fewer than in the same week in 2019.
British Airways was even less in the air with a minus of 64 percent - whereas Turkish Airlines with 1,333 flights a day missed its pre-crisis level by only ten percent.
Overall, air traffic over Europe in the week under review, with more than 24,600 daily flights, reached around 70 percent of the level of 2019.
che / dpa-AFX
