Lufthansa cancels 20,000 flights
Updated 21.28 | Published 20.47
The airline industry is being hit by high fuel prices. Photo: Matthias Schrader/AP
The price of jet fuel is skyrocketing.
Now Lufthansa is canceling 20,000 flights until October.
The reason for the cuts is that the German airline needs to save fuel.
It is shorter flight routes that are affected, Lufthansa writes in a press release.
The cuts concern flights from Lufthansa's six hub airports in Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Vienna, Brussels and Rome. In total, the cuts will save 40,000 tons of fuel.
Twice as expensive
The airline industry has been hit hard by high fuel prices. Lufthansa writes in the press release that jet fuel has become twice as expensive since the war between the US, Israel and Iran began at the end of February.
SAS canceled 1,000 departures in April.
- But that should be compared to the fact that we have 800 flights per day, so these are not drastic measures, SAS CEO Anko van der Werff told TT at the time.
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