German airline, Lufthansa, said on Wednesday that it would cancel 23,000 flights in April, as it tries to deal with the fallout from the Coronavirus crisis.
“Due to the exceptional circumstances caused by the spread of the virus,” Lufthansa said it would scrap 23,000 flights between March 29 and April 24, with more “expected in the coming weeks”.
Then on Friday the Frankfurt-based group, whose brands include Eurowings, Austrian Airlines and Swiss, reported “drastic declines in bookings and numerous flight cancellations”, saying it would slash capacity by 50 percent in the weeks ahead. Lufthansa’s subsidiary Brussels Airlines issued a statement saying it was halting all flights to and from Italy from Thursday to April 3 “due to the announcement made by the Italian government to implement further quarantine restrictions”.Coronavirus disruption has cost Lufthansa around one-third of its share price since late February.
Last week, the group said it would not fly routes to China and Iran until late April, while Israeli restrictions on non-resident arrivals from some EU countries prompted it to scrap flights there until March 28.
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