Lufthansa to Launch Regional Airline for European Flights
Lufthansa Germany’s largest airline has decided to launch a regional airline in Europe next year, which will improve Lufthansa’s position in the short-haul passenger flight segment in continental Europe. According to reports received from the German capital Berlin on Wednesday, October 25, Lufthansa, one of the world’s largest airlines, said that the purpose of introducing this new regional airline is to reduce costs and ensure that short-haul routes in Europe Lufthansa’s existing service can also be extended in the area of long-haul commercial flights.
Name City Airlines
According to a statement issue by Lufthansa, approval from the regulators for the establishment of this new airline was receive in June of the same year. The new subsidiary of Lufthansa Group will be call City Airlines and will start its passenger flights in the summer of next year. City Airlines’ commercial flights will have two major hubs in Germany, Frankfurt and Munich. This will mean that Lufthansa’s network of long-haul passenger flights from the airports of these two German cities will also strengthen through the new company’s “feeder flights”.
Establishment of New Airline
Until now, City Line, a sub-unit of Lufthansa, is also operating in this sector. With the establishment of the new airline, the future City Line and City Airlines will both operate in parallel to each other, making the Lufthansa Group even stronger commercially.
Recruitment of staff from next month
The recruitment of pilots and cabin crew for this new German airline will start in November next month. According to Jens Fehlinger, managing director of City Airlines. The employment prospects in the air travel sector. With this new airline will increase for decades. In contrast, representatives of workers’ organizations. Have accuse Lufthansa of wanting to reduce labor costs by establishing the new airline.
Pilots’ Union
In this regard, the pilots’ union VC said. In August of the same year, “Many airlines are establishing subsidiaries. But operating air service with a separate identity. At the business level so that they can hire new employees at lower salaries.”
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