Lufthansa cuts 20,000 flights due to soaring jet fuel
Lufthansa said it is removing a total of 20,000 short-haul flights from its schedule until October in an effort to offset the higher cost of jet fuel.
It said this equates to a cut of less than 1% in its group capacity.
The German airline said the flights being cut will save about 40,000 metric tons of jet fuel, the price of which has doubled since the outbreak of the Iran conflict.
The airline said the schedule adjustments reduce the number of unprofitable short-haul flights across the Lufthansa Group network.
The first 120 daily flight cancellations were implemented earlier this week and affected passengers have been notified.
With the cancellation of routes from Frankfurt to Bydgoszcz and Rzeszów (Poland) as well as Stavanger (Norway), it said that at least three destinations have been temporarily removed from the current flight schedule.
Ten connections are being consolidated within the group via other hubs including flights from Cork, Stuttgart, Gdańsk and Wroclaw.
For the flights scheduled in the summer timetable, Lufthansa said it is expecting a largely stable fuel supply.
"Lufthansa is pursuing a range of measures to this end, including the physical procurement of jet fuel as well as price hedging," it added.
