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Deutsche Lufthansa AG plans to cut an additional 2,000 flights until the end of August, bringing the airline’s total number of cancellations to almost 6,000 as Europe’s travel disruptions continue to worsen.
Most of the flights affected are domestic routes scheduled to take off from Munich or Frankfurt, a representative for the German carrier said. Long-haul flights and trips to vacation destinations will be largely spared. The move “is meant to counter the precarious situation†at its two major German hubs, Thomas Jachnow, a spokesman for the airline, said by phone.
The carrier realised that it was able to stabilise operations at the two airports with targeted cancellations and is now enacting more of those, he said.
Lufthansa previously cancelled 3,100 flights after a wave of Covid-19 infections swept through its workforce. The carrier later scrapped another 770 flights and restricted seat sales to its most expensive category to limit availability. That move raised the price of even the cheapest return flights between London and Frankfurt to 1,000 euros ($1,003).