Long-haul traffic set to hit new heights at Munich Airport

Traffic growth is well and truly back on track at Munich Airport, with the German gateway today revealing that after a successful summer it expects to set new records for long-haul traffic next summer.

Its confidence is based on the 2024 summer schedules, when Lufthansa will have 36 long-haul aircraft stationed in Munich, and will increase the number of weekly departures to intercontinental destinations from the current 150 to a record 190.

Starting May 30, 2024, these will include a new daily service to Seattle for the first time while Bengaluru will be served up to six times a week in summer 2024.

The airport notes that “modern and fuel-efficient Airbus A350 long-haul aircraft” will operate on both routes.

In the coming summer schedule, Lufthansa will also offer flights to Hong Kong several times a week, while Johannesburg, which was last on Lufthansa’s Munich flight schedule in 2005, will be reinstated on June 3, 2024 (three times a week).

And there’s more as Beijing, Osaka and San Diego, which are currently served three times a week, will receive daily service from next summer and A380 aircraft will serve five destinations – Boston, Los Angeles and New York (JFK), Washington (IAD) and Delhi (DEL) will be new additions.

Indeed, Lufthansa will station a total of six Airbus A380s in Munich next summer, and plans to expand the A380 fleet to a total of eight aircraft by 2025.