Lufthansa is set to enhance its presence in the former Yugoslav markets during the upcoming 2025 summer season, which begins in late March and runs until late October, by increasing its frequencies to meet growing demand. The Star Alliance member will once again have the most flights to Croatia, with frequencies increasing between twelve and thirteen weekly flights on last year during the peak summer travel period for an average of 62 to 65 weekly rotations. Seasonal operations from Munich to Pula and Rijeka will start a month later than in 2024, while Dubrovnik will see the most flights added on the previous year.
Departing Frankfurt
In Belgrade, the German flag carrier is increasing frequencies from both Frankfurt and Munich, reaching a peak of 42 weekly flights in August. Frequencies will vary primarily between 39 and 41 weekly flights for the rest of the summer, which is up by around eight weekly flights. Operations between Frankfurt and Tivat will be doubled for most of the summer and increased on select months from Munich as well. Lufthansa is prone to making frequency and capacity adjustments in the run up to the summer season. As a result, the current filed schedule may change. The airline will deploy Bombardier, Embraer and Airbus A320-family aircraft across its EX-YU operations next summer. It will utilise wet-leased E190s and E195s from partner Air Dolomiti on flights from Frankfurt to Pula, as well as from Munich to Pula and Rijeka.
Departing Munich
Lufthansa recently completed a trial of complementary tea and coffee service in economy class on its short haul flights, which was discontinued in 2021 to save costs. However, the airline is unlikely to return the service anytime soon. Following the trial, Lufthansa Group CEO, Carsten Spohr, said just over a week ago that he is uncertain the airline can afford to offer complimentary hot beverages. According to Mr Spohr, the airline only earns an average profit of around seven euros per passenger, meaning that spending an additional euro per traveller would eat up one-seventh of the company’s profits. He also noted that sales of the airline’s buy-on-board service were reduced due to the complimentary hot beverages.
Great to see. Let's just hope they cancel the planned increases like they usually do.
ReplyDeleteExactly. We will see if these materialize. Each year they announce this expansion and each year they cancel it.
DeleteWhy hope for LESS flights?
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DeleteIn his dream world travelers would either fly with the national airline to wherever destination that airline serves or not fly at all.
Its been almost 35 years from Socialism collapse but some people didn't get the memo yet.
I think he meant “Let’s just hope they DON’T cancel… “ :)
DeleteI meant "don't cancel". Sorry didn't have my morning coffee yet😀
DeleteAnon@9:49
DeleteMan, what are you talking about? Socialism?
The policy of charging seat selection for the business class passengers is, unfortunately, present on another airlines, as well. Not at such exorbitant rates, though...I cannot belive that they charge 700 eur...70 maybe. Approx 80 eur is the amount I have paid a couple of weeks ago for a QR Business Classic rate flight, to get the seat I wanted (per leg)...but it is a ripoff at the end of the day...it is over 300 eur in addition to a 3,5k ticket to get the seat you want...still cheaper that the Comfort rate, which has the free seat selection included, though.
DeleteSo serving free coffee and tea is too expensive for them lol.
ReplyDeleteLH service has gone downhill in every respect.
DeleteMost overrated airline in the world.
DeleteExcept he is lying. A bit of hot water and a tea bag certainly don't cost 1 Eur. That's the price of 20 tea bags. But yeah, i guess the sale of other crap is going down.
DeleteIt's absurd, yeah. Especially considering AF, AY and TK all give you complementary food with lower prices on their flight
DeleteKL, A3 and LO as well.
DeleteLike BA LH only cares about Business and First class customers who are the ones making them the most profit. Some Y+ passengers too.
DeleteThe rest get the LCC treatment.
LH is far from good in first or business either. The 8 year delayed new seats which have so far been installed on a few planes ask passengers in first class 700 euros to select a seat while in business there are 5 different types of seats in the "new" cabin.
Delete700 euros for seat selection is insane!
DeleteCharging first and business class passengers to select their seats after paying thousands of euros for tickets is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I think Lufthansa Group is the only full service company to do this. Although wouldn't be surprised if British does it too. They have become absolute trash for premium travel in 2024.
DeleteThat's how you become profitable and buy out other airlines.
DeleteSeat selection with a fee is becoming very normal across the globe. KL, AF, BA, LH, LX, OS, QR just to name a few that apply this charge. The thing is that base fare doesn’t go up as high as others. Up until before Covid, these were amongst the more expensive to fly from Australia to Europe with, now they tend to be in the cheaper bucket because of the extras. EK now has business class with no lounge, no chauffeur, and fare non refundable. In saying that, these fares are not targeted to the everyday traveller. FF’s have status and this status overrides the need to purchase the extras since their gold/platinum/elite/whatever status gets them half of these benefits included already.
Delete^ no. Seat selection in economy is one thing. Seat selectin in business and first is another and almost none of those airlines you mentioned charge premium seat selection. Exception being LH Group. Fares in premium cabins are way up on 2019.
DeleteStill don't get why they don't fly to Podgorica
ReplyDeleteThey barely fly to Montenegro at all.
DeleteIt's steadily growing
DeleteExcellent news for all airports involved
ReplyDeleteLJU and SJJ keep winning
Delete9.13 ah yeh?
DeleteThey are clearly very dominant in the whole region
ReplyDeleteWe will see in February if they will start cancelling flights for summer like they do every year for the past few years.
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DeleteI wonder how many passengers LH handles to ex-yu each year.
ReplyDeleteStill no flights to PRN...
ReplyDeleteThats why they have Skopje its so close :D
DeleteThey have Eurowings flying to 4 German airports from PRN.
DeleteBravo Fraport!
ReplyDeleteIs there any demand for Munich - Sarajevo? Lufthansa used to operate it until it switched to Frankfurt. Could both work?
ReplyDeleteI work at Munich airport were are flights to Zagreb and a lot of them are flying through Zagreb to Sarajevo.
DeleteHopefully to see them launch Munich from SKP or Eurowings!!
ReplyDeleteclearly you have not the slightest clue of Eurowings's profile nor Munich airport
DeleteEurowings has only 4 destinations from MUC, 3 german, Mallorca (plus PRN which is flying on behalf of local diaspora Reisebüros)
If you want Eurowings flights at SKP pray for DUS because that is the only realistic option now that STR is gone to Wizz.
Yo, bro, chill it down a bit.
DeleteGuy was only hoping for flights MUC-SKP.
Nice. I would really like to see more of Lufthansa mainline in the region. They have no flights Podgorica or Pristina
ReplyDeleteEurowing flies from Prishtina to Munich, Stuttgart, Hanover and Hamburg.
Delete09:38 of course thet fly to where the kosovo gastos are stacionated , so simply.
Delete11:07 Skopje, the world renowned metropolis only got LH flights in 2023, so settle down
Deletesomeones envy
DeleteIndeed.
DeleteI'm actually flabbergasted how many flights they will have to ex-Yu next summer. I didn't expect this volume.
ReplyDeleteOur region loves flying with Lufti! ❤️🇩🇪
DeleteIt's unbelievable how LH can have 3 flights a day form MUC to BEG but JU can not fly there at all...
ReplyDeleteTrue dat. Especially if you consider that more Serbian travelers fly this route than Germans.
DeleteMaybe because this route is primarily for connecting passengers….
DeleteMunich is a bigger city than Farankfurt yet ASL is not afraid to fly there.
DeleteEveryone gets a piece of the pie. Service from Belgrade to wider area has been split this way:
DeleteMunich - Lufthansa
Memmingen - Wizz
Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Salzburg - Air Serbia
Spohr should reduce his annual salary from 4 Mio EUR down to 500'000 EUR, by this a further 150 upper mgt level staff salaries would be reduced, on top of it, clean out all external consults such as McKinnsey etc (Vranckx already did this in his department). Reduce internal bureaucracy by eleminating a healthy part of unnecessary analysts. This would save LH easy 150-200 Mio and increase profits again
ReplyDeleteWell, it´s not like Spohr has done wonders with LH
DeleteIt had an operating profit of 2.7 billion Euros for 2023.
DeleteMakes the 4 million he gets look like a bargain for LH shareholders.
The main shareholders assesment companies, who control multi nationals belong all to the 0.1% elites and they will always cover these salaries and will rather cut services for customers, than cut salaries of the top mgt structures
Delete^ Nice hearing form you comrade!
DeleteSpohr appointed CEO of Lufthansa May 2014
DeleteLH shares May 2014 - 14 Eur
LH shares Dec. 2024 - 6 Eur
Spohr has been an unmitigated disaster for LH Group and I'm wondering how he hasn't been sacked after the recent Allegris fiasco.
DeleteIt would be nice to see LH flying from INI, at least seasonal, as Swiss
ReplyDeleteI'd rather see OS.
DeleteGlad to see Ljubljana will have Munich double daily … is this now same as adria flew?
ReplyDeleteNot yet. LJU-MUC in summer 2019 was 18 weekly by Adria.
DeleteWhich other cities have potential for LH flights? INI, MBX, TZL?
ReplyDeleteMBX huge potential
Deletenone of them
DeleteKVO for sure!
DeleteAnd the schedule is worse (at least for passengers departing LJU).
DeleteThere is a really big jump in connection between Munich and Belgrade wow
ReplyDeleteDon't tell JU!
DeleteThanks for the tables. Happy new year!
ReplyDeleteLast few years my experience is really bad..And I had big complain on my last flight, so decided to give up on LH..I was on flight from Baku to BEG via FRA, we had emergency landing in IST, technical problems..They left us sitting in a plane fot 6 hours , six !! and didn't alliw usage of tpilets in a plane full of kids..That behaviour was outrageous..They probably didn't wanna pay IST for organizing disembark of pax to wait somewhere in airport building..And Azeri and Turkish are closest possible countries, practically same nation, so no visas between them..
ReplyDeleteDas Sie die Besatzung 6 Stunden nicht auf die Toilette gelassen ist, das glaube ich Ihnen niemals …
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