29 March, 2020

Return home schedules from Lufthansa Group airlines as Austrian Airlines flies its longest ever nonstop journey

From the beginning of next week, a return flight schedule will be in effect for the airlines in the Lufthansa Group. This will initially be valid until 19 April 2020. 

Harry Hohmeister, Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG: "This situation has a historic dimension. Hardly anyone wants to or is currently allowed to travel. That is why our returnee flight schedule is now essentially geared to the needs of European citizens who want to return to their home countries. We are now flying as many people home as possible!"

The intercontinental return flight schedule in detail

Long-haul flights are offered as scheduled from Frankfurt and Zurich. Lufthansa's intercontinental flight schedule from Frankfurt is as follows: three times a week to Newark, Chicago (both USA), Montreal (Canada), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Bangkok (Thailand), Tokyo (Japan) and Johannesburg (South Africa). 


In addition to a substantially reduced short- and medium-haul timetable (48 services from Zurich), SWISS will in future offer three weekly long-haul flights to Newark (USA). 

Lufthansa's short- and medium-haul schedules


From its hubs in Frankfurt and Munich, Lufthansa still offers around 40 daily connections to the most important cities in Germany and Europe. 

Short and medium-haul flight schedule of Eurowings


Eurowings flight programme focuses on the basic supply of the airports of Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Cologne. 

Special flights for governments and tourism companies


In order to bring as many people as possible back home quickly, the airlines of the Lufthansa Group are currently operating numerous special flights all over the world in close consultation with the governments of their respective home countries and on behalf of tourism companies. With around 130 extra flights operated by Lufthansa, Eurowings, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Edelweiss, around 25,000 passengers have so far flown home. Around 100 further flights are already being prepared.

Renunciation of the use of face masks


The Lufthansa Group is waiving the purchase of more than 920,000 permanently ordered face masks and making them available to the health authorities. In this way, the company assumes social responsibility and supports medical facilities that urgently need these masks. The Group has a sufficient quantity of masks in stock for Lufthansa Group employees.

In addition, Lufthansa Group employees who have completed medical training can now be released quickly and unbureaucratically on a voluntary basis for specific work in a medical facility.



Photo Austrian Airlines

The longest flight in company history 

Austrian Airlines is currently operating the longest flight in more than 60 years of company history:  a nonstop flight from its home base of Vienna to Sydney in Australia,  a distance of 16000 kilometres.  The flight is being conducted on Boeing 777, registration, OE-LPD, and will take over 17 hours flying time.   Once in Sydney the aircraft will pick up stranded passengers and fly them back to Vienna, however,  this won't be direct, it's going via Penang for a refuelling stop.  Monitor the trip with flightradar24.





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