Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt International) has ordered two additional A380-800s, an A330-300 and four A320-200s in October and will also take delivery of three A321-200s originally destined for subsidiary bmi british midland (BD/East Midlands) in the first half of 2012. It has also announced a massive amount of new routes, especially from the new Berlin Brandenburg International airport opening on June 3 and replacing both Schönefeld and Tegel airports in Berlin. BBI is in the same location as Schönefeld but will include a new runway and terminal complex. At Berlin, Lufthansa will be cancelling most germanwings (4U/Cologne/Bonn) routes and replacing them with mainline services while doing the opposite in Stuttgart where several routes will be transferred from Lufthansa to germanwings. Lufthansa will introduce the following new services over the course of the next six months: Berlin-Barcelona: daily A319-100/A320-200 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Bastia: weekly seasonal A319-100 service starting on June 9 (replacing germanwings) Berlin-Beirut: 3x weekly A319-100 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Bergen: 2x weekly seasonal A319-100 service starting on June 6 Berlin-Bologna Marconi: 6x weekly A319-100 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Birmingham: daily A319-100/A320-200 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Bucharest Otopeni: 4x weekly A319-100 service starting on June 3 (replacing germanwings to Baneasa) Berlin-Catania: 2x weekly seasonal A319-100 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Dubrovnik: weekly seasonal A319-100 service starting on June 9 (replacing germanwings) Berlin-Geneva: 2x daily A319-100 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Helsinki: daily A319-100 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Istanbul Atatürk: 4x weekly A320-200 service starting on June 4 (replacing germanwings) Berlin-Izmir: daily A320-200 service starting on June 3 (replacing germanwings) Berlin-Lyon: 5x weekly A319-100 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Malaga: 2x weekly seasonal A320-200 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Manchester: daily A319-100 service starting on June 3
Berlin-Moscow Vnukovo: 2x daily A319-100 service starting on June 3 (replacing germanwings from Schönefeld to Vnukovo and Lufthansa from Tegel to Domodedovo) Berlin-Nice: 5x weekly A319-100 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Palma de Mallorca: 4x weekly A319-100/A320-200 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Reykjavik Keflavik: 2x weekly seasonal A319-100 service between June 7 and September 8 Berlin-Rome Fiumicino: daily A319-100/A320-200 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Split: 3x weekly seasonal A319-100 service starting on June 5 (replacing germanwings) Berlin-Stockholm Arlanda: 2x daily A319-100 service starting on June 3 (replacing germanwings) Berlin-Tel Aviv Ben Gurion: 2x weekly A320-200 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Valencia: 2x weekly A320-200 service starting on June 6 Berlin-Vienna: 6x weekly A319-100 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Westerland: 2x weekly seasonal A319-100 service starting on June 3 Berlin-Zadar: weekly seasonal A319-100 service starting on June 9 (replacing germanwings) Berlin-Zagreb: 4x weekly A319-100 service starting on June 3 (replacing germanwings) Berlin Tegel-London Heathrow: 3x daily A319-100 service has started on November 24 (operated by bmi british midland (BD/East Midlands) and replacing bmi’s own flights) Berlin Tegel-Milan Linate: 6x weekly B737-300 service starting on January 9 Dusseldorf Intl-Bari: weekly seasonal CRJ-900 service between May 5 and October 20 (operated by Eurowings (EW/Dusseldorf Intl)) Dusseldorf Intl-Bologna Marconi: 6x weekly CRJ-700 service starting on March 26 (operated by Lufthansa CityLine (CL/Cologne/Bonn)) Dusseldorf Intl-Catania: 2x weekly seasonal CRJ-900 service starting on March 25 (operated by Eurowings) Dusseldorf Intl-Dublin: 2x weekly seasonal CRJ-900/Fokker 100 service between May 6 and September 26 (operated by Contact Air (C3/Stuttgart) and Eurowings) Dusseldorf Intl-Helsinki: daily B737-500/CRJ-900 service starting on March 25 (partially operated by Eurowings) Dusseldorf Intl-Ibiza: weekly seasonal A320-200 service between May 26 and September 15 Dusseldorf Intl-Knock: weekly seasonal CRJ-900 service between May 5 and September 29 (operated by Eurowings) Dusseldorf Intl-Krakow: 6x weekly CRJ-700/-900 service starting on March 25 (operated by Eurowings and Lufthansa CityLine) Dusseldorf Intl-Malaga: 2x weekly seasonal A320-200 service starting on April 28 Dusseldorf Intl-Tokyo Narita: 6x weekly A340-300 service starting on June 1 Dusseldorf Intl-Westerland: 2x weekly seasonal CRJ-900 service starting on April 28 (operated by Eurowings) Dusseldorf Intl-Zadar: weekly seasonal CRJ-900 service between May 26 and September 22 (operated by Eurowings) Frankfurt Intl-Ankara Esenboga: daily A321-200 service starting on March 25 Frankfurt Intl-Dubrovnik: weekly seasonal EMB-190 service starting on March 31 (operated by Lufthansa CityLine) Frankfurt Intl-Klagenfurt: 2x weekly seasonal EMB-190 service has started on October 30 (operated by Lufthansa CityLine) Frankfurt Intl-Moscow Vnukovo: 2x daily A319-100/A320-200 service starting on March 25 (in addition to four daily flights to Domodedovo) Frankfurt Intl-Salzburg: 4x daily Fokker 100 service has started on October 30 (operated by Tyrolean Airways (VO/Innsbruck), route transferred from Austrian Airlines (OS/Vienna)) Frankfurt Intl-Shenyang-Qingdao: 3x weekly A340-300 service starting on March 26 Frankfurt Intl-Tripoli Intl: 3x weekly A320-200 service resuming on February 2 Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel-Dubrovnik: 2x weekly seasonal CRJ-900 service between May 5 and October 13 (operated by Eurowings) Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel-Jersey: weekly seasonal B737-500 service between June 9 and September 1 Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel-Naples: weekly CRJ-900 service starting on April 14 (operated by Eurowings) Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel-St. Petersburg: 2x weekly B737-300 service starting on March 25 Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel-Venice Marco Polo: 2x weekly CRJ-900 service starting on March 25 (operated by Eurowings) Munich-Bastia: weekly seasonal CRJ-900 service between May 5 and September 29 (operated by Lufthansa CityLine) Munich-Jersey: weekly seasonal EMB-195 service between June 2 and September 29 (operated by Lufthansa CityLine) Munich-Mexico City: daily A340-600 service starting on October 28, 2012 Munich-Montpellier: weekly seasonal CRJ-900 service starts on March 31 (operated by Lufthansa CityLine) Munich-Odessa: weekly seasonal CRJ-900 service between May 5 and September 29 (operated by Lufthansa CityLine) Munich-Pula: weekly seasonal Dash 8-400 service between May 5 and October 13 (operated by Augsburg Airways (IQ/Munich)) Munich-Valencia: weekly A319-100 service starting on March 31 Lufthansa has retired seven of its B737-500s. It still operates 33 B737-300s and 23 B737-500s. It has given up its routes from Munich to Bursa on October 30 and will terminate routes from Dusseldorf Intl to Athens on January 21, from Munich to Klagenfurt on February 1, from Frankfurt Intl to Calgary on February 5, from Dresden to London Heathrow and from Frankfurt Intl to Guangzhou and Kolkata on March 24. Lufthansa will not resume its seasonal route from Dusseldorf Intl to Bergen next summer and has already terminated its codeshare agreement with Jat Airways (JU/Belgrade) on October 30.