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Lufthansa to add Munich-Hong Kong A380, resumes Singapore route
June 16th 2017
Lufthansa will be adding capacity to Asia from its Munich hub in 2018. For the first time, starting “in summer 2018”, the German flag carrier will be basing five of its 14 A380s in Munich. Read More » It plans to roster the very large aircraft on flights from the Bavarian capital to Beijing, Hong Kong and Los Angeles, replacing A340-600s.
“With the A380 we can offer our Munich customers a premium aircraft at a 5-star hub,” said Harry Hohmeister, member of the executive board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and in charge of hub management. “In recent years, we have made great progress in steering our hubs. We harmonized and integrated processes and are now more flexible in utilizing our aircraft at different locations.”
The Munich-Hong Kong route was to be operated by the 293-seater A350-900 from October so it remains to be seen whether this will still happen or whether the A340s will continue flying the route through to 2018 when it will become an A380 service.
In other news, also “from summer 2018”, Lufthansa will resume five-weekly Munich-Singapore flights, presumably with the A350 fleet that will be exclusively based in Munich.
The carrier terminated Munich-Singapore-Jakarta with the A340 in October 2012.
