Lufthansa has updated its operations for the remainder of the summer season after suspending flights from Munich to Ljubljana, Rijeka and Tivat until the end of May, and maintaining just nine flights to Belgrade throughout the month, following the sudden closure of its CityLine subsidiary. The airline will restore all four routes in June, although there will be some frequency and equipment changes.
Flights between Munich and Belgrade will resume on June 1, with the German carrier operating eighteen weekly rotations between the two cities, down from the twenty weekly services initially planned prior to the CityLine shutdown. There will be three daily flights on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, and two daily flights on the remaining three days of the week. The carrier will utilise its Airbus A320-family fleet on the route, although the A319 will be predominantly used. Lufthansa will face competition from Air Serbia, which will operate daily flights between the two cities from May 22 with the 118-seat Embraer E195.
The airline will return Munich – Ljubljana on June 1 with eleven weekly flights, down from fourteen weekly. There will no longer be two daily flights on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The carrier will also utilise wet-leased aircraft from Helvetic Airways. It will deploy the Swiss carrier’s 122-seat E195 jet on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays (one of two flights), Saturdays and Sundays (one of two flights). The remaining operations will be maintained by Lufthansa’s A320-family fleet.
The carrier will also restore its seasonal operations to Tivat and Rijeka. Flights to the Montenegrin coast will resume on June 6, with six flights planned during June and July, increasing to nine in August before reducing to five in September, matching frequencies planned prior to the CityLine closure. All services will be operated by the A319. Similarly, flights to Rijeka will resume on June 7, with four to five flights per month throughout the summer, in line with frequencies planned under CityLine. The route will be operated by a mixture of A319s and Helvetic Airways E195s.
