Important: German airline cancels Budapest routes

Lufthansa is reducing its summer timetable due to a shortage of labour. The German airline is still facing a shortage of staff and will cancel 34,000 flights from the end of March to the end of October. Budapest routes are also affected.

Lufthansa adjusts its summer schedule due to shortage of staff

A Lufthansa spokesperson confirmed to Wirtschaftswoche that the German airline has adjusted its 2023 summer schedule. Flights to Frankfurt and Munich are affected. The reason is the shortage of staff, just like last year, airportal.hu reports. Until the end of this year, Lufthansa plans to hire some 20,000 employees. However, this cannot be done until the beginning of the summer peak period.

According to information from aero.de, there are not enough pilots for the A320 family in particular, which operates on European backbone routes. According to the news portal, Lufthansa will be forced to cancel 34,000 flights in the summer months as a result. This represents around 10 percent of the planned schedule.

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The German airline aims to prevent panic caused by last-minute cancellations

The airline reduces frequencies on routes with several daily flights and cancels those with few bookings. With this, they are making it easier for affected passengers to rebook to other flights. With planning and informing passengers in advance, Lufthansa aims to prevent chaos caused by last-minute cancellations.