Voorlopig staan onze vluchten nog op confirmed. En ik heb even wat rondgekeken op internet en die geluiden zijn, voor ons althans, positief. Een bloemlezing:
By Jill Pole with AFP
Airline giant Lufthansa is planning to cut more than 3,000 flights this summer due to staff shortages and strikes.
The news comes as a second wave of announcements is confirmed on Thursday, and currently relates to 2,200 flights – or 3 per cent of those scheduled.
The company already cut back 5 per cent of summer flights on Fridays and weekends, including 900 connections. It said this was due to “bottlenecks and [a] shortage of personnel, [meaning] the entire European aviation sector suffers”.
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As a result, the group is cutting 2,200 out of 80,000 flights to and from the hubs of Frankfurt and Munich, mainly domestic and intra-European routes.
Earlier this month, the carrier canceled almost 1,000 flights for the summer due to staff shortages. The flights in question comprised around 900 domestic and intra-European flights from its hubs at Frankfurt and Munich. The affected routes were mainly on the weekends, with most cancelations taking place on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The cuts amounted to around 5% of the group’s weekend capacity.
The Star Alliance member has now confirmed it cancel a further 2,200 of a total of around 80,000 flights from its hubs in Frankfurt and Munich for the summer. The routes affected in the latest round of cuts consist primarily of intra-European flights that the group serves with high frequency and domestic routes that have realistic alternative transportation options.
The cancellations will largely avoid major classic vacation and leisure destinations, which the airline notes have maintained a strong demand and reliable load factors. Flights facing the chop are primarily ones on which passengers can be offered a corresponding travel alternative by air or rail.
Het slechte nieuws is dat er vluchten worden geannuleerd; het “goede” nieuws is dat het voornamelijk gaat om vluchten op vrijdag, zaterdag en zondag en dat er wordt getracht om belangrijke vakantie en vrijetijdsbestemmingen te vermijden bij het annuleren van vluchten.
