May 24, 2020 — German airline Lufthansa announced the resumption flights to tourist destinations, including Dubrovnik, starting in June.
“In the second half of June, Lufthansa is reintroducing flights to 20 tourist destinations,” a company spokesman told HRT, confirming an article in the German daily Bild am Sonntag. A schedule of flights has not been released yet.
Dubrovnik relies heavily on airline and cruise ship travelers, seeking some sort of special categorization allowing flights to resume despite the pandemic.
The airline will resume flights to high-traffic destinations, such as Mallorca, Crete, Venice, Rhodes, Ibiza, and Dubrovnik. A total of 160 of the 760 aircraft from the Lufthansa fleet and companies such as Eurowings and Swiss, which are part of this Lufthansa Group, would fly the routes.
At the same time, negotiations are underway between the German state and Lufthansa to rescue the nation’s largest airline, which has fallen into financial difficulties due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to some information, the government plans to help with about nine billion euros. In return, the state would, at least for a time, enter the ownership structure of Lufthansa.
