Lufthansa to Begin Operations on New Routes from India Later This 12 months

To faucet the post-Covid development alternatives within the Indian aviation market, European airline main Lufthansa on Thursday mentioned it should begin flights on Munich-Bangalore and Frankfurt-Hyderabad routes this 12 months.

Lufthansa Group, which has been current within the Indian marketplace for greater than 90 years, at the moment has greater than 50 weekly companies to India, connecting Frankfurt, Zurich and Munich with varied Indian cities, together with Delhi and Mumbai.

The Indian market is “very crucial” for the Lufthansa Group, Harry Hohmeister, Member of the Govt Board International Markets & Community, mentioned right here on Thursday.

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The flights on the Munich-Bangalore route shall be operational thrice every week and the primary flight shall be on November 3.

On the Frankfurt-Hyderabad route, the flights will begin within the coming winter.

“The growth underlines Lufthansa’s long-term imaginative and prescient to strengthen its footprint within the Indian market by catering to the rising inhabitants of younger working professionals,” it mentioned in a launch.

In line with Hohmeister, there’s numerous competitors in India, together with through Dubai and Qatar and it’s one thing that the group is used to.

“India is on the transfer… why ought to I simply have a look at competitors? I’m not a fan of benchmarking. I’m a fan of designing our firm along with an awesome crew in the appropriate method and with the appropriate merchandise,” he mentioned.

Within the launch, Lufthansa mentioned it intends to make the perfect of India’s untapped development alternative – particularly within the post-Covid period – by offering customers with probably the most premium journey experiences throughout their worldwide journeys, be it for enterprise or leisure.

Hohmeister additionally mentioned that through the Covid time, the Indian market was reorganising itself utterly and that it was utterly a distinct gameplay in comparison with different markets.

In regards to the laws in India, Hohmeister mentioned it’s “one thing we have now to stay with… we have now to work on that”.

To a question associated to Air India, he mentioned it’s a very attention-grabbing firm.

Each Lufthansa and Air India are a part of the Star Alliance.

“I’m completely satisfied to listen to companions creating, it’s at all times a very good message… No airline can stand by itself… we have to have companions,” he added.

The group will put money into premium merchandise, he mentioned, including that it plans to rent greater than 20,000 individuals.

Worldwide, the group has 1,09,509 staff and generated revenues of 32,770 million euros within the monetary 12 months 2022.

Lufthansa Group contains the segments of Community Airways, Eurowings and Aviation Companies.

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