German carrier Lufthansa has suspended its Frankfurt-Skopje route for the entire month of June. The last flight is scheduled for May 31, and the resumption is not expected until July 1, but with no confirmed schedule. The development follows a turbulent April for Lufthansa, during which the carrier was hit by industrial action, the closure of its CityLine subsidiary, and the subsequent suspension of numerous routes. The airline has also been revising its Frankfurt operations, removing a number of destinations from its network.
The carrier will operate its final service between the two cities on May 31, after which no flights are scheduled throughout June. Operations are currently expected to resume from July 1, although the airline has yet to finalize its updated timetable. Up until May 16, Lufthansa will maintain a daily service on the route, after which frequencies will increase to between nine and ten weekly flights until May 31. Prior to revising its schedule this week, the airline had planned to operate ten weekly rotations between Frankfurt and Skopje throughout June.
Lufthansa launched services between Frankfurt and the Macedonian capital in late April 2023. During the previous winter, it made significant cuts to its Skopje operations, reducing frequencies from a planned ten weekly to just three weekly rotations throughout February and March. The wider Lufthansa Group is accelerating the consolidation of its European networks within its hub carriers – Lufthansa Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and ITA Airways. This follows the adoption of its “Matrix Next Level” program last year, a restructuring initiative aimed at centralizing operations across the group’s network.
Source: https://www.exyuaviation.com
