European airline Lufthansa joined dozens of airlines in cancelling flights en masse in the coming months, with the German airliner dumping 20,000 planned journeys from its schedule in the coming months.
The move has shaped up to be one of the largest cancellations of planned flights by a global airline, as the travel crisis deepens and jet fuel prices skyrocket.
The German titan of the skies will dump swathes of flights between May and October to save fuel, revealing the mass cancellations in a statement released Tuesday (April 21).
“In total, 20,000 short-haul flights will be removed from the schedule through October, equivalent to approximately 40,000 metric tonnes of jet fuel, the price of which has doubled since the outbreak of the Iran conflict,” a spokesperson for Lufthansa said in its online statement.
The statement continued: "The planned consolidation of the European network is being carried out across Lufthansa Group's six hubs in Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich,....
