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Lufthansa: Airline initiates a turnaround after Corona - summer flight schedule at Munich Airport is being significantly adjusted

2021-01-20T16:41:19.029Z


Lufthansa looks to 2021 with caution. It will probably take some time before the pre-crisis level is reached. But with additional connections to popular vacation destinations, the company wants to turn things around.


Lufthansa looks to 2021 with caution. It will probably take some time before the pre-crisis level is reached.

But with additional connections to popular vacation destinations, the company wants to turn things around.

  • Few industries are suffering as severely from the

    corona

    pandemic as aviation.

  • The

    Lufthansa

    caught it bad.

    With the start of the summer flight schedule, the crisis-ridden airline is hoping for a gradual improvement.

  • The main hopes are on tourist destinations in

    southern

    Europe.

Munich -

Lufthansa

does not

expect

a rapid improvement in air traffic in

view of the further increasing

corona

numbers

worldwide

.

"We are currently assuming that the volume of traffic could reach around 50 percent of the pre-crisis level by the end of the year," said a group spokeswoman on Wednesday to

Merkur.de

*.

Last autumn, the airline had hoped for a corresponding recovery by the summer season.

The company is now looking to the current year with greater caution. 

The ticket demand will largely depend on how the corona numbers develop in the destination countries and how many people in Germany and the destination countries could be vaccinated, said the

Lufthansa

spokeswoman.

Because of the corona pandemic, the industry is in the worst crisis in its history.

According to an overview by the industry association

IATA

, the airlines' losses worldwide totaled around 100 billion euros last year.

The airport operators, aircraft manufacturers and suppliers, which are also in deficit, are not even included.

The

Lufthansa

mired in crisis.

From January to September alone, the number of passengers dropped by around two thirds to 32.2 million.

In the same period, the group piled up 5.58 billion euros lousy.

Because of the threatening situation, the federal government even had to rush to help with a billion-dollar rescue package last spring.

It is true that the airline recorded an unexpected rise in bookings for sunny destinations such as the Canary Islands or South Africa at short notice during the recent Christmas holidays.

But the economic situation for the industry remains extremely tense in view of the ongoing travel restrictions and the accelerated spread of the corona pandemic, for example in Great Britain.

And improvement is hardly in sight.

According to industry experts, business with tourists on the medium-haul route could initially get under way.

In contrast, the recovery in business travel will be a long time coming - if the expensive trips in business class ever reach their pre-crisis level again.

After all, many companies have come to appreciate the benefits of video conferencing during the corona pandemic.

Many flying visits on site should therefore be completely eliminated in the future.

At

Lufthansa

, you adjust accordingly.

With the start of the summer flight schedule, the medium-haul range at

Munich Airport

will be

expanded significantly, the

group

spokeswoman announced.

Especially destinations on the Greek islands would be more frequented with the flight plan change from the end of March.

Destinations such as

Kos

and

Rhodes

were already in

high demand

last autumn

.

In addition to the temperatures, comparatively low incidence values ​​also speak in favor of the holiday destination on the Mediterranean.

The

Canary Islands

,

Spain

,

Portugal

,

southern France

and

Italy

remained the focus of the summer flight schedule

.

However, which destinations will actually be flown to and how often will depend on the further development of the corona pandemic, it said.

Source: merkur

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