LH Italia to close from 30 OCT 11

StephenLondon - 27/05/2011 09:31 GMT

Lufthansa this week has announced the end of its Lufthansa Italia brand, which last flight operates on 29OCT11.

As a result, all Lufthansa Italia service will be cancelled permanently starting 30OCT11, including following routes (which are Zero’d out in the GDS inventory display):

Milan Malpensa – Barcelona
Milan Malpensa – Bari
Milan Malpensa – Catania
Milan Malpensa – London Heathrow
Milan Malpensa – Naples
Milan Malpensa – Paris CDG
Milan Malpensa – Prague
Milan Malpensa – Stockholm
Milan Malpensa – Warsaw

The Star Alliance member will continue to codeshare with Aegean Airlines, Austrian, brussels airlines, Continental Airlines, SWISS out of Milan Malpensa

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LuganoPirate - 27/05/2011 09:40 GMT

Great shame. I suppose it will mean going back to TAP on this route now. I've used LH Italia quite often to Lisbon and elsewhere, though the plane was rarely full. Service was great, clean planes and great crew. There was something about LH FA's speaking Italian. It made them somehow more friendly (and dare I say sexier?) than when they speak German.

I wonder what they will do with the planes they bought for this route? Probably integrate them back into the regular LH fleet.

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Potakas - 27/05/2011 12:51 GMT

The aircraft will be used from other carriers of the Lufthansa Group.

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