Lufthansa expands long haul network while reducing domestic feeder routes in summer 2026
Lufthansa Group announced (28-Oct-2025) the following highlights for Lufthansa's operations for summer 2026:
- From Frankfurt Airport:
- New services:
- St Louis, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town: Five times weekly;
- Raleigh Durham, Washington and Nairobi: Daily;
- Frequency increases:
- Trondheim: Additional four weekly frequencies from 01-May-2026;
- New services:
- From Munich Airport:
- Services extended into summer 2026:
- Sao Paulo: Three times weekly;
- Johannesburg.
- Services extended into summer 2026:
Lufthansa plans to reduce frequencies on more than 50 feeder routes from summer 2026, including routes from Munich to Cologne, Düsseldorf and Berlin, as well as from Frankfurt to Leipzig and Nuremberg. Services from Munich to Münster and Dresden are under review. The carrier also announced that services from Frankfurt to Toulouse and from Munich to Tallinn or Oviedo will be discontinued for operational reasons from spring 2026. [more - original PR]
Background ✨
Lufthansa had previously confirmed it would discontinue Leipzig/Halle-Munich service from the end of winter 2024/25, while increasing Leipzig/Halle-Frankfurt frequency to up to five times daily from summer 2025, where it is the sole scheduled operator on both routes1. Recently, Munich Airport stated Lufthansa would resume Johannesburg and Sao Paulo services in winter 2025/26, aligning with the extension of these services into summer 20262.