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Lufthansa axes 34,000 flights this summer season - report

Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt International) is cancelling every tenth flight it has arranged for its Summer 2023 schedules, equivalent to around 34,000 flights for the Lufthansa brand alone for the summer half-year, valid from March 26 to October 29, WirtschaftsWoche reported.

A spokesman for the carrier told the German business weekly that “Lufthansa has adjusted the 2023 summer flight schedule from Frankfurt International and Munich” and warned that “further daily deletions can always be added.” He did not want to comment on the exact number cancellations.

He conceded that the number could grow still further as cuts at subsidiaries such as Eurowings, Brussels Airlines, or Swiss may also be inevitable. Eurowings told the weekly that the schedules are constantly being adjusted “but the changes we plan are to a much lesser extent.”

In order to spoil the process for as few passengers as possible, Lufthansa is seeking to cut flights mainly on routes where several frequencies are offered per day, so that it can offer a replacement flight to customers...

Germany's Eurowings, Spain's Volotea sign sales partnership

Eurowings (EW, Düsseldorf) and Volotea (V7, Asturias) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a sales partnership which will allow both LCCs to cross-sell their respective flights.

In addition to the partnership, Volotea will also add eight new routes to Germany to boost connections between either airline's network. The Spanish LCC will inaugurate the new Berlin Brandenburg International-Verona, Düsseldorf-Bordeaux, and Stuttgart Manfred Rommel-Bordeaux routes on May 26, 2023. The remaining five routes - Berlin-Lyon St. Exupéry, Hamburg Helmut Schmidt-Bordeaux/Florence Peretola/Lyon, and Stuttgart-Nantes - will launch on October 10 and 12, 2023, and will be Volotea's first scheduled services to Germany.

"Step by step, we are strengthening the 'Euro' in our Eurowings brand name. Our roots are in Germany, but we are consistently expanding our pan-European presence with this partnership. Having developed Eurowings towards Eastern and Northern Europe with recently opened bases in Prague Václav Havel and Stockholm Arlanda, the expansion of our route portfolio towards Southern...

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