Slow start for Lufthansa on new US route after Air Berlin collapse
Lufthansa’s first flight from Berlin to the US in over 16 years took off Wednesday, although a slow start to sales shows the difficulties involved in trying to replace the gaps left by insolvent rival Air Berlin. Air Berlin carried out its last flight at the end of last month, leaving a gap in the market for long-haul flights from the German capital in particular. “Of course bookings are slow at this stage,” Lufthansa board member Harry Hohmeister said Wednesday. He said that usually Lufthansa would give 12 months notice of a new long-haul route, or 8 months at a minimum, but in this case it had only 6 weeks to sell tickets ahead of the first flight. Lufthansa has traditionally shied away from long-haul flights from Berlin, instead flying intercontinental routes from its hubs in Frankfurt and Munich. <br/>
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Slow start for Lufthansa on new US route after Air Berlin collapse
Lufthansa’s first flight from Berlin to the US in over 16 years took off Wednesday, although a slow start to sales shows the difficulties involved in trying to replace the gaps left by insolvent rival Air Berlin. Air Berlin carried out its last flight at the end of last month, leaving a gap in the market for long-haul flights from the German capital in particular. “Of course bookings are slow at this stage,” Lufthansa board member Harry Hohmeister said Wednesday. He said that usually Lufthansa would give 12 months notice of a new long-haul route, or 8 months at a minimum, but in this case it had only 6 weeks to sell tickets ahead of the first flight. Lufthansa has traditionally shied away from long-haul flights from Berlin, instead flying intercontinental routes from its hubs in Frankfurt and Munich. <br/>
