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Lufthansa to offer additional SA-Europe flight route

Lufthansa is set to operate the flight route between Johannesburg and Munich from September.

Travellers will thus have a choice of two direct flights to Germany from Johannesburg.

The airline already operates direct flights between Johannesburg and Frankfurt.

LUFTHANSA MUNICH FLIGHTS

The German carrier will commence operations between Johannesburg and Munich on 3 September.

This route will be operated three times a week. Year-round flights will be offered, using an efficient Airbus A350-900 aircraft.

LUFTHANSA CAPE TOWN – MUNICH FLIGHT

The German national airline will also operate direct flights between Cape Town and Munich, starting in November.

However, this service will be operated on a seasonal basis, as reported by Businesstech.

Flights between Cape Town and Munich will operate during the European winter (summertime in the Southern Hemisphere).

RELAUNCHED LUFTHANSA FLIGHT ROUTE

The Johannesburg service is not the first time the airline has operated flights between Johannesburg and Munich.

Lufthansa operated scheduled flights on the Johannesburg – Munich routing nearly 20 years ago. The airline suspended this service in 2005.

DELAYED START OF SERVICE

The reintroduction of the route was announced in September last year, with flights initially slated for June 2024.

However, as reported by Sustainability in the Sky, Lufthansa moved the start date to accommodate the other new routes it launched this year.

LUFTHANSA IN AFRICA

The Lufthansa Group of airlines has a strong presence in Southern Africa.

Its subsidiaries – Lufthansa, SWISS, Discover Airlines, Austrian Airlines, and Edelweiss – operate services to and from key destinations including South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Mauritius.

MUNICH

Munich is one of the largest cities in Germany. It is located in the state of Bavaria.

Several large international companies are indeed headquartered in the Munich area, including BMW, Siemens and Allianz.

The Bavarian city is also a tourist hotspot. Munich is known for the Oktoberfest and its famous football team, Bayern Munich.

FORMER SAA ROUTE

South African Airways (SAA) also operated scheduled flights between Johannesburg and Munich.

The airline was forced to terminate these services due to the Covid-19 pandemic when all of its flights were grounded.

The airline has intentions of resuming services on a number of its international routes including Munich.

In July, SAA interim CEO John Lamola said that the company plans to add nine destinations to its existing 14 and increase the number of its aircraft by 50% to 21 by March next year.

SAA has already reintroduced scheduled flights on two intercontinental routes. Late last year it relaunched flights to Sao Paulo in Brazil.

In April this year, it resumed flights between Johannesburg and Perth in Australia.

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