Lufthansa Group airlines will resume flights to Tel Aviv from January 8. The German airline is one of the first international airlines to resume flights to Israel. In a first phase, Lufthansa Airlines will offer four flights a week from Frankfurt and three from Munich. Subsidiary Austrian Airlines schedules eight flights a week, while SWISS has five flights a week. In a first step, Lufthansa Group will have a total of 20 connections per week to and from Tel Aviv. This corresponds to 30 percent of the regular flight schedule. Aircraft of the Airbus A320 family are used. This flight schedule offers good transfer connections from Israel to North America and back via the hubs in Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, and Zurich. The flight schedule will be published on Monday 18 December. Flights can be booked from this date. Safety is always a top priority for Lufthansa Group, the airline company emphasized in a statement on Friday. The Lufthansa Group continues to closely monitor the security situation in Israel and is in close contact with local and international authorities. If circumstances change, the flight schedule will be adjusted. Lufthansa Group suspended scheduled flights to and from Tel Aviv on October 9 this year, following the attack by terror group Hamas on October 7. Some 1,200 Israelis were killed in the attack. Lufthansa Group’s flights to Beirut (Lebanon), which were also suspended, resumed on Friday, December 15, by Lufthansa, SWISS and Eurowings. El Al, Israel’s national airline, has always flown on after the October 7 terror attacks. The load factor of the flights, including those to the Netherlands, is said to be very high. (Photo Shutterstock).
