Jens Ritter

It’s not every day I am able to announce the very first flight of a new airline. Yet as of now, Lufthansa City Airlines - as part of Lufthansa Airlines - has taken to the skies across Europe! ✈️🇪🇺

Today, the first flight took off at 9.10 am with the flight number VL2508. The “Juliet-India”, an A320neo, was heading from Munich to Birmingham. Dusseldorf, Cologne, Hanover and Bremen will follow. The second aircraft, an A319, will fly to Bordeaux, Hamburg and Berlin. After the first five aircraft of the Airbus A320 family, the fleet will be expanded to at least eight more A320neo and further A319s. Delivery of the 40 new aircraft of the fuel-efficient Airbus A220-300 type ordered will start in 2026. So, if you are up for modern and efficient aircraft, and a LH proven customer experience – go and enjoy your flight with the brand new Lufthansa City Airlines!

Why a new airline? The inner-European market is growing, and we want to be part of it: Being a hub- and spokes-system, we need mid- and short-haul traffic to fill our long-range aircraft. Yet it is a tough market which we tackle with strong and flexible operation platforms with competitive structures. Lufthansa City Airlines is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group and has been built up over the last two years by a fantastic project team with colleagues from Lufthansa CityLine, Lufthansa Airlines and the Group. Just like Air Dolomiti, Discover Airlines and CityLine, Lufthansa City Airlines is part of the Lufthansa Airlines division.

Welcome to our family, Lufthansa City Airlines!

#WeTakeOffToTakeCare #LufthansaCityAirlines #LufthansaCity

Allegris in the air! Today, our “X-ray-Tango” with our new cabin product had a very special flight! 🙌🏻✈️

Before her first commercial take-off on May 1st, the “Leipzig” was needed in Frankfurt, and we took the opportunity to raffle off the seats among our employees. So many tried to be on board – no wonder, as we are all airliners at heart. And seeing a new product and actually feeling it is so much better than just reading about it! Together with my colleague Astrid Neben, our Chief Human Resources Officer at Lufthansa Airlines, I had the pleasure to hand out some drinks and chocolate to our staff. Which is always fun! Bonus: As this was a special flight, we also offered a little care package – some snacks in the (also brand new) Allegris amenity kits of the Economy Class.

Every month for the rest of 2024, we will have a new aircraft with Lufthansa Allegris. Going forward, we expect to add (on average) two Allegris aircraft per month to our fleet. This will be either new aircraft from Boeing and Airbus or existing ones in our fleet. Because we will also retrofit our current aircraft, such as the 748 and our A350s. Still, it will take a while until everyone can experience our new cabin product. So it was great that at least some of us were able to see what we all have been working so hard for in the past years!
Even though the flight was short, it was wonderful to see so many happy faces – be it the ramp agents giving us thumbs up, the lovely check-in staff, the colleagues from Munich Airport, the enthusiastic crew on board, and of course all the passengers.

#WeTakeOffToTakeCare #LufthansaAllegris #OurPeopleAreOurBrand