Lufthansa’s Has Ended 23 International Routes: A Summary

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The German giant’s entire network has been explored using its schedule submission to Cirium. Its full schedule between January 2025 and May 2026 was compared to what is available from June 2026 to March 2027.

This analysis identified that 23 international routes have ended, of which 11 have ceased being served from its Frankfurt Airport (FRA) hub and 12 from its second-busiest hub at Munich Airport (MUC). As usual, context is critical.

13 of the 23 links were operated exclusively or partly by the now-defunct, regional-jet-operating Lufthansa CityLine. While it might change, only one of the routes has since been taken over by non-RJ equipment. That service is now operated by Lufthansa City, which has a lower-cost platform than the parent.

What was Lufthansa’s worst-performing US route has switched to the Lufthansa Group’s leisure unit, Discover Airlines. Elsewhere, one of the 23 routes is now operated by the wholly-owned carrier Air Dolomiti on behalf of Germany’s flag carrier. Finally, another service is now in the exclusive hands of another Star Alliance member.

Lufthansa Has Ended These 11 Routes From FRA

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Schedule analysis shows that Lufthansa no longer operates from FRA to Bordeaux (ends in May 2026), Bydgoszcz (April 2026), Glasgow (May 2026), Katowice (October 2025), Larnaca (March 2026; switched to Discover), Minneapolis (April 2025; switched to Discover), Newcastle (May 2026), Rzeszów (April 2026), Stavanger (April 2026), Skopje (May 2026), or Toulouse (March 2026). Some of these routes were operated fully or partly by CityLine.

This article was researched and written on May 29. Flights from Lufthansa’s leading hub to Bordeaux, Glasgow International Airport (GLA), Newcastle Airport (NCL), and Skopje will end on May 30 or 31. While Bordeaux will remain served from MUC (by both mainline and City), GLA, NCL, and the capital of North Macedonia will be removed from Lufthansa’s network.

GLA and NCL will still have other network airlines to choose from, while Edinburgh — which Lufthansa will still fly to — is only about an hour from the other major Scottish city. Cirium data shows that Lufthansa had 57,204 seats to/from NCL last year, while the UK Civil Aviation Authority indicates that 44,016 passengers were carried. As such, the route had a seat factor of 76.9. Meanwhile, GLA’s load was 75.7%. Both results were quite a bit below the airline’s overall load from FRA (83.8%), although this is, as ever, just one performance metric.

Lufthansa Has Ended These 12 Routes From MUC

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Recall that this article is based on services that operated at some point between January 2025 and May 2026 not being scheduled from June 2026 onward. 13 links from MUC have ended. They include Ancona (flights ceased in March 2026; now served by Air Dolomiti with its EN IATA code), Asturias (flights ceased in October 2025), Billund (October 2025), Gdańsk (April 2026), Larnaca (March 2026; switched to Discover), Oulu (June 2025), and Poznan (March 2026). The Italian city of Ancona was previously served, in part, by Lufthansa’s Airbus A319s. It remains part of the carrier’s network, just now exclusively using Air Dolomiti’s E195s.

Then there’s Rzeszów (ended in March 2026), Sibiu (April 2026), Tallinn (October 2025; partner airBaltic operates), Timisorara (April 2025; now served by Lufthansa City, with its VL IATA code), Vienna (March 2025; now exclusively served by fellow Star Alliance member Austrian Airlines). Until 13 months ago, the Romanian city of Timișoara saw Lufthansa’s A319s, A320ceos, and A320neos, along with CityLine’s CRJ900s. City’s A319s/A320neos now operate on its behalf, which is, admittedly, a fairly technical difference.

Larnaca, Rzeszów, Oulu, and Sibiu are no longer part of the large operator’s network at all. The Polish city of Rzeszów, which is near the Ukrainian border, is part of broader changes to Lufthansa’s service to Poland. Flights in the peak summer of 2026 have fallen by more than a third year-over-year. Codeshare partner LOT Polish offers connections via its Warsaw hub.