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Lufthansa is intensifying its cooperation with City Airlines and is transferring several services from its Munich hub to the subsidiary in the current summer flight schedule. The first service is the route to Birmingham, which is to be served at the end of the month. This is according to information from “CH-Aviation.com” that was published by airliners.de on Monday.
City Airlines is preparing intensively for the start of operations and is planning flights from Munich to Birmingham from June 26, 2024. Three more destinations are to be added in July: Berlin on July 23, Bordeaux on July 27 and Hamburg on July 28. All flights will be operated with Airbus A319.
Lufthansa is initially equipping City Airlines with four A319s and plans to connect the subsidiary with destinations from the Frankfurt hub from 2025. From 2026, deliveries of 40 A220-300s, which were ordered specifically for City Airlines, are also scheduled to take place. At the same time, City Airlines is planned to be equipped with A320neos.
City Airlines is taking over tasks from Lufthansa Cityline in the feeder system, as the latter will not be able to operate aircraft with more than 2026 seats from 95 due to collective bargaining restrictions. These collective bargaining restrictions were terminated as part of the 2021 Perspective Agreement (PPV).
All flights in the new cooperation will be operated under the “Lufthansa City” brand. The introduction of this platform also aims to save costs in the feeder network, with City Airlines forecast to achieve annual savings of one to two million euros per aircraft in personnel costs compared to the mainline’s A320 fleet.
