Officially established: Lufthansa moving forward with Cityline 2

Its purpose is primarily one: to reduce personnel costs in the cockpit. After negotiations with unions failed at the beginning of the year, Lufthansa management decided to Got a new daughter. The airline will have its own German Air Operator’s Certificate (English: AOC) and will handle short and medium-haul flights to and from Frankfurt and Munich from a summer flight schedule of 2023. It will work in a way like Lufthansa Cityline 2.

Now the company has been formally established. On 9 May, Flugverkehrsbetrieb München GmbH was registered in the Munich District Court under registration number 275919. Its purpose is described as “the operation of domestic and international air traffic and all businesses and facilities relating to aviation and its promotion”. The current Managing Director is Marco Zenger, who works at Lufthansa in the area of ​​airline strategies. First, the magazine FVW reported on the establishment.

Later about 40 aircraft

Even though the foundation had been planned for some time, it happened at a delicate stage. Ten days after the new subsidiary was registered, the Lufthansa Group sent a termination notice to 281 Germanwings pilots. “Against the background of the shortage of cockpit staff and the increasing number of wet leases at Group Airlines, there is a lack of any entrepreneurial spirit in dismissing several hundred experienced and highly qualified pilots,” said Arne von Schneidemeiser, vice president of Vereinigung Cockpit Union Step. commented.

According to the Lufthansa boss, the new airline with the project name Newcont and the official company name Flugverkehrsbetrieb München will employ 250 captains. that would be Fleet after completion of about 40 aircraft to include. They should be paid like the pilots in Cityline. Originally, it was also intended to take on Germanwings’ crews.