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The Lufthansa Group will optimize seat capacity at all six of its hub airports.
Unprofitable routes operated by Lufthansa CityLine to and from Frankfurt and Munich will be discontinued, reducing seat capacity by less than 1 percent.
Until May, 120 flights per day will be cancelled, and services to Bydgoszcz, Rzeszów, and Stavanger will be suspended. Services to Heringsdorf, Cork, Gdańsk, Ljubljana, Rijeka, Sibiu, Stuttgart, Trondheim, Tivat, and Wrocław will be covered by consolidating them into other hubs within the group.
The reductions in flights from June onward are scheduled to be announced between late April and early May. The number of reduced flights through October will reach 20,000, cutting more than 40,000 tons of jet fuel.
Across the six hubs of Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Vienna, Brussels, and Rome, the integration of the group airlines’ European networks will also be accelerated.
The group has secured enough jet fuel for the coming weeks. It expects fuel supply to remain largely stable and says it is taking various measures, including physical procurement and price hedging.