Germany's new airline launches this month. Here’s where it will fly to. The brand new Lufthansa City Airlines will take its first flight on 26 June, bringing new short- and medium-haul connections to Germany.
Bookings for the new airline are already open, focusing on connecting flights for Lufthansa from its main hubs in Frankfurt and Munich. Here’s where it will fly and how it could change air travel in Europe. The new Lufthansa subsidiary’s debut flight will go from Munich in to Birmingham in the UK.
Alongside the existing Lufthansa CityLine subsidiary, the new Lufthansa City will eventually serve domestic and European routes from its Munich and Frankfurt bases. In 2024, domestic destinations will include , Bremen, Cologne Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Hannover. Outside of , the airline will initially fly to Bordeaux in France, and Manchester and Birmingham in the UK.
Further European flights are expected to be added down the line. In 2025, slated destinations include Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse-Blagnac and Lyon-Saint Exupéry in France; Bilbao and Barcelona in Spain; Prague in Czechia; Ljubljana in Slovenia; Zagreb in Croatia; in Poland; Belgrade in Serbia; Sofia in Bulgaria; Bucharest in Romania; Helsinki in Finland; Gothenburg-Landvetter in Sweden; Oslo in Norway; Luxembourg; and Dublin in Ireland. Though similarly named, Lufthansa CityLine and Lufthansa City are separate subsidiaries of Germany’s flag carrier.
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