Lufthansa: Almost as many flights as before the crisis - Frankfurt is gaining importance compared to Munich

Lufthansa was particularly hard hit by the corona pandemic.

Despite the reconstruction of the flight network, more than half of the flights are still missing compared to 2019.

Frankfurt / Main - Thanks to the recovery in travel, the airlines are starting to rebuild the route networks. The Lufthansa Group * relies primarily on its largest hub in Frankfurt. From the Main, 150 destinations can be flown to directly in September, as the company announced on Tuesday on request. 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, also made it onto the Frankfurt flight schedule.

Group-wide - taking into account all the hubs and other airlines such as Swiss, Austrian and Brussels Airlines - only 88 percent of the previous network is covered.

That is around 280 destinations worldwide.

The plan is still to offer almost all destinations that were also bookable in 2019 again in September, explained a spokesman.

Lufthansa: Almost half fewer flights than in 2019

The crane jets are also less frequent on many connections than 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, while Turkish Airlines with 1,333 flights a day missed its pre-crisis level by only 10 percent. Overall, air traffic over Europe in the observed week with more than 24,600 daily flights reached around 70 percent of the values ​​of 2019.