Malpensa: British suspends flights, KLM reduces them and Lufthansa closes lounge
The first to cut flights at Malpensa was Alitalia, after Linate reopened, the Italian airline [...]
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The first to cut flights at Malpensa was Alitalia; after Linate reopened, the Italian airline first reduced flights to Rome and then canceled them altogether.
Of the only two intercontinental routes there had been no trace for some time, as flights to both New York and Tokyo never resumed after the March blockade.
And now comes three more pieces of bad news for the Lombard airport, virtually simultaneously.
The first is the Air France/ KLM group's decision to reduce frequencies from the airport to hubs in Amsterdam. The second is a similar choice, but by British Airways, which is completely cutting flights to Malpensa at least until mid-December, when the airline hopes it can begin to see the light again.
And then there is the third piece of bad news, with Lufthansa sparing no cuts to what is in fact its second largest market, after domestic.
After having permanently closed 6 lounges in as many airports in Germany, shutters down also for the waiting room opened two years ago in Malpensa Terminal 1, which welcomed all frequent flyers flying to Frankfurt and Munich and then on to the world with the Lufthansa network, which we recall also includes Swiss and Brussels Airlines among others.
Obviously the choices of the three airlines are understandable, since they were using the flights as feeder flights for the intercontinental network, but with all of Europe on the precipice of a second lockdown, volumes are stretched thin.
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