Lufthansa to grow operations across former Yugoslavia

Lufthansa plans to increase frequencies to a number of cities in the former Yugoslavia from March 26, 2023, including Ljubljana, Belgrade, Zagreb, Dubrovnik and Sarajevo. It comes after the airline announced the launch of a new ten weekly service from Frankfurt to Skopje starting in April of next year.

The German carrier will introduce a new daily service from both Frankfurt and Munich to Ljubljana. As a result, it will maintain three daily rotations from Frankfurt and a double daily service from Munich. The airline will operate an additional fourteen weekly flights into the Slovenian capital for a total of 35 weekly rotations. All flights are currently scheduled to be performed with the CRJ900 aircraft, however, equipment changes are likely and may vary.

In Belgrade, Lufthansa will add an extra daily flight from Frankfurt for a total of three daily rotations, or 21 weekly services. All are scheduled to operate with the Airbus A320-family fleet. The flights will complement its triple-daily Munich service on which it will deploy the A320-family jets, representing an increase in overall capacity on the route. In total, the airline plans to maintain 42 weekly flights into the Serbian capital.

Lufthansa will add an additional daily service from Munich to Zagreb for a total of two daily flights or fourteen weekly services from March 26. The carrier will boost capacity on the route by maintaining all operations with the A320-family aircraft. Frequencies from Frankfurt will remain unchanged at double daily, however, the airline will boost capacity from Embraer and Bombardier jets to the larger A319 aircraft. In total, Lufthansa will run 28 weekly flights to the Croatian capital. The German carrier will also grow on the coast by adding an extra two weekly flights from Munich to Dubrovnik for a total of ten weekly with a mix of A319 and A320 aircraft. However, its daily Frankfurt - Dubrovnik service will be taken over by low cost subsidiary Eurowings Discover.

The German national carrier will strengthen its presence in Sarajevo next summer by adding an additional three weekly flights from Frankfurt for a total of ten weekly rotations. The airline introduced services to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital last year, replacing its previous Munich service. Lufthansa will serve Sarajevo with a mix of morning and evening flights with its A320-family fleet.

Operations to other cities in the former Yugoslavia will remain mostly unchanged, although the resumption of some of its seasonal services will occur earlier than during the summer of 2022. Furthermore, flights between Frankfurt and Rijeka will be decreased from two to one weekly.

Lufthansa summer 2023 operations from Frankfurt