Lufthansa to suspend Zagreb, Sarajevo operations
Lufthansa will temporarily suspend its flights from Munich to Zagreb and Sarajevo, marking its departure from both markets. The German carrier’s operations to the capitals of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina will be discontinued on December 1 and are not planned to resume before the 2021 summer season. Lufthansa previously suspended flights between Frankfurt and Zagreb for the winter. Croatia Airlines intends on restoring its operations to the Bavarian capital from December 16, while there will be no nonstop alternative for the Munich - Sarajevo service, which was restored just last week. Lufthansa initially planned to run 38 flights to Zagreb and sixteen to Sarajevo during December.
Amid the continued impact on demand from travel restrictions, the Lufthansa Group says its airlines will offer a maximum of 25% of last year’s capacity until the end of next month. “This consistent capacity reduction will ensure that flight operations continue to make a positive contribution to earnings”, the company said. Among Lufthansa Group carriers, Austrian Airlines has temporarily suspended its flights to Zagreb, while Eurowings has cancelled its operations to Sarajevo, but continues to maintain flights to the Croatian capital. Elsewhere, Lufthansa remains present in the region with services from Frankfurt to both Belgrade and Ljubljana, while Austrian continues to serve Belgrade, Podgorica, Pristina, Sarajevo and Skopje.
Lufthansa Group says that over the winter flight schedule, it will operate 125 fewer aircraft than originally planned. Its CEO, Carsten Spohr, said: “We are now at the beginning of a winter that will be hard and challenging for our industry. We are determined to use the inevitable restructuring to further expand our relative competitive advantage. We aspire to remain the leading European airline group following the end of the crisis”. He added, “We want to return to a positive operating cash flow in the course of the coming year. In order to achieve this, we are advancing restructuring programmes throughout the group with the aim to make the Lufthansa Group sustainably more efficient in all areas”.
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