Lufthansa Considers Canceling Flights to Asia

As a response to sanctions imposed on Western countries, Russia has introduced embargo of its own on Western companies…

From Reuters:

“Lufthansa is continuously evaluating and optimising its entire route network,” said a Lufthansa spokesperson.

A final decision on whether to cut the connection from Frankfurt, Germany’s busiest airport, will be made in October, said the spokesperson. Lufthansa will operate a daily flight from Munich, Germany’s second-busiest airport, to Beijing.

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Chinese airlines have been gaining market share on international routes as foreign airlines are deterred by weak China travel demand, rising costs and extended flight times because of the need to avoid Russian airspace.

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The German and other European flight operators are no longer competitive because Russia closed its airspace to them. Russia did so because of 16,000 sanctions imposed on the former by Western countries in support of Ukrainian Nazis.