Lufthansa to Scrub 20,000 Summer Flights to Save on Fuel Costs

Deutsche Lufthansa AG will scrub 20,000 uneconomic short-haul flights from its European summer schedule to save on jet fuel, which has doubled in price since the start of the Iran war.

The cuts will amount to 1% of available seat-kilometers and save around 40,000 tons of jet fuel, Europe’s largest airline group said in a statement late Tuesday. The move comes after the carrier last week announced the shut down of its Cityline regional unit and the grounding of 27 older, fuel-guzzling aircraft.