Munich Airport eyes growth as Lufthansa’s hub to Asia

Munich Airport is set to continue its hub development as Lufthansa plans to use the airport as its hub for flights to Asia, airport president and CE Michael Kerkloh said. “The first phase of that strategy becomes live this summer with the opening of new Munich-Osaka Kansai [Japan] services. This route will be transferred from Frankfurt to Munich,” Kerkloh said. Additional new Lufthansa services from Munich to Asia include flights to Bangkok as well as more frequencies to Singapore and Seoul. “Important for our hub was the successful implementation of Lufthansa’s A380s. The current A380 destinations show, [despite] the large size of the aircraft, that load factors are very good,” Kerkloh said. “Lufthansa has hinted in 2020 it wants to relocate 2 more A380s to Munich, but that is not yet fixed.” <br/>