Lufthansa is canceling 20,000 flights until October.Image: keystone
April 22, 2026, 12:57 p.mApril 22, 2026, 12:57 p.m
The airline Swiss is stepping into the breach after parent company Lufthansa’s flight cancellations. By the end of May, Swiss will be offering around 140 additional flights within Europe, a company spokeswoman told the AWP news agency on Wednesday.
The adjustments include destinations across the entire Swiss network, in particular Cluj, Stuttgart and Munich. At the same time, Swiss will be thinning out certain routes in Europe on individual days until the end of June and flying to certain destinations less frequently. Around 50 flights and destinations across the network are affected, particularly Nice, Amsterdam and London. However, Swiss continues to serve all planned locations, the spokeswoman explained.
Lufthansa is canceling 20,000 flights until October
The Lufthansa Group announced on Tuesday that it would be canceling 20,000 short-haul flights by October with the announced closure of its regional subsidiary Cityline. This corresponds to a saving of around 40,000 tons of kerosene, the price of which has doubled since the start of the Iran war.
The Strait of Hormuz remains blocked because of the Iran war.Image: keystone
With the adjustments, the Lufthansa Group wants to reduce the number of uneconomical short-haul flights. The Lufthansa offer is to be optimized over the summer via the six hubs Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Vienna, Brussels and Rome.
These destinations are affected
According to Lufthansa, the first 120 daily flight cancellations with effect until the end of May were implemented on Monday. The routes from Frankfurt to Bydgoszcz and Rzeszow in Poland and Stavanger in Norway are temporarily canceled. Ten connections within the group are to run via other airports – those affected are Heringsdorf, Cork (Ireland), Gdansk (Poland), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Rijeka (Croatia), Sibiu (Romania), Stuttgart, Trondheim (Norway), Tivat (Montenegro) and Wroclaw (Poland).
In view of the reduction in its capacities, Lufthansa is also revising its medium-term route planning. Details should be published at the end of April and beginning of May. The group expects a “largely stable fuel supply” for the flights now planned in the summer flight schedule. (leo/sda/awp/dpa)