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Germany’s Lufthansa, Europe’s biggest airline, said it will be resuming flights to Tel Aviv from January 8, making it one of the first international carriers to resume flights to the Israeli city after they were suspended at the onset of the war in early October.
The resumption of services will be done in phases, with the first initially offering four weekly departures from Tel Aviv to Frankfurt and three weekly flights to Munich, Cologne-based Lufthansa said in a statement on its website on Friday.
Its subsidiaries are also returning to service, with Austrian Airlines planning eight weekly connections to Vienna and Swiss International Air Lines aiming for five weekly flights departing from Tel Aviv to Zurich, it said.
As a group, Lufthansa’s units will offer a total of 20 weekly connections to and from Tel Aviv, which is equivalent to nearly a third of its regular flight schedule, it said.
Lufthansa in its statement posted flight…
