Eurowings to decimate EX-YU network
Low cost carrier Eurowings will implement significant cuts to its network of destinations in the former Yugoslavia this winter season, which will impact Belgrade, Sarajevo, Split and Zagreb. Eurowings has become increasingly problematic for the Lufthansa Group due to its high costs. The carrier will operate five fewer aircraft next year and has halted all network growth plans for 2023. "The already difficult earnings situation at Eurowings with its millions in losses has been made even worse by additional costs resulting from the pilot strikes. What do you do then? You take the worst routes out", Lufthansa’s CEO, Carsten Spohr, said.
As previously reported, the company will suspend operations from Dusseldorf to both Belgrade and Zagreb this winter. It will run limited operations from Dusseldorf to both cities for the Christmas and New Year holidays, from December 23 until January 9 (Belgrade) and from December 20 until January 7 (Zagreb). Both routes are scheduled to resume during the 2023 summer season which begins in late March of next year. The carrier previously suspended its only other service to Belgrade, from Stuttgart, which is also due to resume next summer.
Eurowings will temporarily suspend operations on its two other Zagreb routes, from both Cologne and Stuttgart. Flights from Cologne to the Croatian capital will not be maintained from January 16 until February 18, while services from Stuttgart will be halted from January 16 until the end of the month. Split will also see temporary suspensions on three routes – Cologne, Dusseldorf and Stuttgart. Flights from Stuttgart to Croatia’s second largest city will not be maintained from November 28 until December 19 and then again from January 9 to February 18. Cologne will be suspended from January 11 to February 13. Sarajevo will see Lufthansa’s low cost subsidiary halt flights from Stuttgart starting November 28 until December 19, and again from January 9 until February 25. Furthermore, services from Cologne to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital will be suspended from January 11 until February 17. Some of the route suspensions which are slated to occur in January and February could be extended into March. Furthermore, plans for the 2023 summer season remain uncertain as the carrier looks to maintain its network with 76 aircraft, which is fewer than it had at its disposal this year.
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