Details are beginning to emerge of how
Lufthansa’s budget brand will evolve.
In September
the carrier announced it would create a low-cost offering to operate
non-hub domestic and European routes, and it is now confirmed that
Cologne-based Germanwings (the low-cost subsidiary of Lufthansa) will take over
all its parent’s non-hub routes in stages.
According to
a Germanwings spokesman, the phased operation will start in January. It will
extend over several months.
It means that
all Lufthansa flights which do not serve its twin hubs of either Frankfurt or
Munich will be taken over by Germanwings which will provide a budget airline
style of service.
Typical
international services to be transferred would include Lufthansa’s flights from
London Heathrow, Birmingham and Manchester to Berlin Tegel, London Heathrow to
Hamburg, Dusseldorf to Milan and Hamburg to Vienna.
What will
confuse passengers is that Lufthansa is continuing to take bookings on all
these routes at its regular prices.
As yet, there
is no indication on lufthansa.com when, or even if, these non-hub routes will
be switched to Germanwings.
Source:businesstraveller.com
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