According to media reports quoting an internal LH newsletter, Lufthansa will accelerate the removal of 45 of its 50 to 70 seat regional aircraft currently operated by subsidiaries Cityline and Eurowings.
The two currently have a combined fleet of 36 CanRJ200s and 22 CanRJ700, so at least some of the fairly new CanRJ700s will face the axe in addition to the CRJ200s that have been slated for removal from the fleet for some time now.
If I have my data correct, it means that only a very small fleet of aircraft with less than 90 seats will remain with the German operation of Lufthansa group: (probably) 15 CRJ700 at Cityline, 10 Q400 at Augsburg Airways and a handful of ATRs with Contactair. Not sure what this will mean for some of Lufthansa's thinner routes from airports such as DUS, HAM and TXL from where the CRJ200s are mainly operated on international routes by-passing the hubs at FRA and MUC. Probably not all will be able to sustain 90seaters. e.g. those from DUS to Eastern European destinations.
No timeline for the removal has been given by Lufthansa other than it will be accelerated and that it is part of the current cost-cutting programme that will be fully implemented in 2009/2010.
Link to FTD Germany:
http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/handel...t-kleine-flieger-aus/50011739.html
[fonte: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/4553691/ ]
The two currently have a combined fleet of 36 CanRJ200s and 22 CanRJ700, so at least some of the fairly new CanRJ700s will face the axe in addition to the CRJ200s that have been slated for removal from the fleet for some time now.
If I have my data correct, it means that only a very small fleet of aircraft with less than 90 seats will remain with the German operation of Lufthansa group: (probably) 15 CRJ700 at Cityline, 10 Q400 at Augsburg Airways and a handful of ATRs with Contactair. Not sure what this will mean for some of Lufthansa's thinner routes from airports such as DUS, HAM and TXL from where the CRJ200s are mainly operated on international routes by-passing the hubs at FRA and MUC. Probably not all will be able to sustain 90seaters. e.g. those from DUS to Eastern European destinations.
No timeline for the removal has been given by Lufthansa other than it will be accelerated and that it is part of the current cost-cutting programme that will be fully implemented in 2009/2010.
Link to FTD Germany:
http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/handel...t-kleine-flieger-aus/50011739.html
[fonte: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/4553691/ ]