Lufthansa Upping Frankfurt, Munich Offering In Summer 2023

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Flights to Mexico City (MEX) and Osaka (ITM) from Munich (MUC) highlighted Lufthansa’s unveiling of summer 2023 routes.

Both routes are resumptions of services suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Star Alliance member’s flights from MUC to ITM in Japan will open May 2, 2023. Flights to MEX will restart June 2. Both routes will be flown 3X-weekly with Airbus A350 aircraft.

Lufthansa is also launching six new routes from Frankfurt (FRA) and MUC combined. From FRA it will begin 2X-daily service from April 23, 2023 to London Gatwick (LGW). Also on that date, Lufthansa will open service between FRA and Belfast (BFS) with 4X-weekly flights.

Additionally in April, the carrier will start service from FRA to: Asturias (OVD in Spain (3X-weekly); Biarritz (BIQ) in France (Saturdays-only): and Skopje (SKP) in Macedonia (up to 2X-daily).

New routes from MUC to be launched in April 2023 include OVD (Saturdays-only) and Bordeaux (BOD) in France (3X-weekly).

The carrier will also resume daily service between MUC and Rzeszów (RZE) in Poland from April 23.

The airline said it will operate 87% of pre-pandemic capacity from Frankfurt and Munich in the summer 2023 schedule.

Aaron Karp

Aaron Karp is a Contributing Editor to the Aviation Week Network.