Saturday, February 06, 2021
Fight against mutant viruses
Lufthansa cuts flight schedule
The significantly stricter rules for air passengers from so-called Corona risk areas further restrict travel. Flights to South Africa or Great Britain, where the new virus mutations are rampant, will be "temporarily" reduced, reports Germany's largest airline.
Due to the stricter entry rules, Deutsche Lufthansa has canceled flight connections to countries where more contagious variants of the corona virus are rampant. Connections to South Africa, Brazil, Great Britain, Ireland and Portugal were "temporarily" reduced, announced the largest German airline on request and confirmed a message from "Spiegel".
The reason is missing bookings. On January 30, the federal government had issued strict entry rules for areas in which particularly contagious virus mutants are rampant. However, the flight connections will not be completely canceled.
"Most of our passengers fly for important professional, business or personal reasons", explained Lufthansa. This applies in particular to trips to risk areas.
"With our flight offer, we still get a low minimum connectivity and thus give German citizens in particular the security of being able to do socially or economically important tasks or to come home." In addition, the connections would be used by diplomats.
According to the information, Lufthansa is also using the cargo capacities in the passenger aircraft for necessary transports and maintaining the value chain. "It is important to look ahead now and to make preparations for the time when the incidence of infections recedes and air traffic can be restarted," the airline said. This includes a comprehensive test strategy.
.