Lufthansa’s CEO says the airline is placing more flights over the next two months as demand for business travel picks up again, according to reports.
“We are now seeing very clearly that business travellers are coming back,” chief executive Carsten Spohr told Reuters, who first reported the news, at a conference in Berlin.
Spohr said in Europe the airline was “already flying 60 per cent of our programme again.”
The airline, he continued, increased capacity on its domestic flights by 30 per cent during September with plans to increase it by a further 15 per cent next month.
Hourly flights between Frankfurt and Hamburg, and between Frankfurt and Berlin, will be reintroduced in the mornings and evenings, the most popular times for business travellers to fly.
Spohr also said the air cargo trade was thriving: “In air freight, due to the major unprecedented bottlenecks in global supply chains, the boom has even increased…