Lufthansa Group is cancelling around 20,000 short-haul flights across Europe through October as part of a sweeping operational reset aimed at removing unprofitable routes and tightening its network amid persistent pressure from high jet fuel prices and uneven demand recovery.
The reductions span multiple subsidiaries within the group and are concentrated on short-haul European services, where profitability has been most constrained. Traffic is being increasingly funneled through core hubs in Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Vienna, Brussels and Rome as the airline shifts away from thinner point-to-point connections, according to reporting by Politico Europe.
