Lufthansa to add St Louis as part of transatlantic summer push
Lufthansa is to begin the first direct transatlantic flights from St Louis for almost 19 years after unveiling plans to launch a service to the US city from Frankfurt next summer. The carrier will serve the Missouri city with three weekly flights from June 2022 using Airbus A330 aircraft featuring a three-class cabin configuration. The new route is the most eye-catching part of a summer schedule which also includes new Frankfurt flights to Liverpool in the UK, to Norwegian city Stavanger, and to Rennes in France. Lufthansa also confirmed the four additional Airbus A350-900s it signed for in October would be based at Munich, taking its fleet of the type to 21. This will support a network from the German city including new nonstop flights to Rio de Janeiro and San Diego. The airline again plans to operate five Airbus A340-600s over the summer from Munich, enabling it to offer a first-class cabin option. St Louis has been without a nonstop European service since American Airlines dropped its London Gatwick flights in October 2003. Two years earlier TWA ended its Paris Charles de Gaulle flights, the last time continental Europe had been served directly from St Louis.<br/>
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Lufthansa to add St Louis as part of transatlantic summer push
Lufthansa is to begin the first direct transatlantic flights from St Louis for almost 19 years after unveiling plans to launch a service to the US city from Frankfurt next summer. The carrier will serve the Missouri city with three weekly flights from June 2022 using Airbus A330 aircraft featuring a three-class cabin configuration. The new route is the most eye-catching part of a summer schedule which also includes new Frankfurt flights to Liverpool in the UK, to Norwegian city Stavanger, and to Rennes in France. Lufthansa also confirmed the four additional Airbus A350-900s it signed for in October would be based at Munich, taking its fleet of the type to 21. This will support a network from the German city including new nonstop flights to Rio de Janeiro and San Diego. The airline again plans to operate five Airbus A340-600s over the summer from Munich, enabling it to offer a first-class cabin option. St Louis has been without a nonstop European service since American Airlines dropped its London Gatwick flights in October 2003. Two years earlier TWA ended its Paris Charles de Gaulle flights, the last time continental Europe had been served directly from St Louis.<br/>