Eurowings is cutting the domestic German flight schedule. Numerous connections will be suspended until next year. The reason is the effects of the pandemic.
Eurowings is cutting back on domestic German routes and temporarily removing numerous connections from the flight schedule. This primarily affects smaller locations such as Bremen, Leipzig and Dresden.
The Lufthansa offshoot does not serve the connection between Cologne/Bonn and Dresden until February 24th. The route between Düsseldorf and the second Saxon airport in Leipzig will not be flown any longer. The route will only be resumed with the flight schedule change on March 28, as a Eurowings spokesman confirmed.
Despite the adjustments, there are still alternatives in the Eurowings network. “For example, we still connect Dresden with Düsseldorf,” said the spokesman. The routes Hamburg-Nuremberg and from Stuttgart to Dresden, Hanover and Bremen are also affected. According to the current status, all connections will not return to the flight schedule until the end of January.
Eurowings capacities on domestic German routes
Airport
percent
Berlin
20.2
Hamburg
16.4
Stuttgart
16.2
Düsseldorf
15.2
Cologne/Bonn
12.7
München
11.2
Dresden
2.9
Dortmund
1.9
Nuremberg
1.0
Bremen
0.9
Hannover
0.9
western country
0.6
The graphic shows the percentage distribution of Eurowings capacities on domestic German connections in the current winter timetable.Which: CH-Aviation
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Eurowings explains the reasons why the weeks of the year, which are traditionally the ones with the weakest demand, have suffered a further setback due to the pandemic. Nevertheless, nothing has changed in people’s basic desire to travel. “Flights to the Canary Islands and Mallorca are still well booked in the pre-Christmas period,” the spokesman said.
Easyjet resumes domestic German flights
Competitor Easyjet resumed the Berlin-Cologne connection last week. With immediate effect, the carrier connects both cities twelve times a week. There are two flights a day, except on Saturdays. Before the pandemic, the low-cost airline had four domestic German routes on offer, with routes from Berlin-Tegel to Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn, Munich and Stuttgart.
