ROUTES - Lufthansa Group: In summer 2026, with over 14,000 weekly connections to 330 destinations in around 100 countries

New hub connections for Group Airlines
Numerous capacity increases planned

Planning your next summer vacation as the gloomy season begins? Passengers can now do that with Lufthansa Group Airlines flights. The 2026 summer flights are now available for booking, featuring new intercontinental and European destinations as well as numerous frequency increases for Lufthansa Airlines, Discover Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, Brussels Airlines, Edelweiss, and ITA Airways.

The Lufthansa Group airlines now offer their guests over 14,000 weekly connections to 330 destinations in around 100 countries via their hubs in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, and Italy.

New at Lufthansa Airlines from Frankfurt and Munich:

A stable and reliable flight schedule with an increase in the number of connections to attractive destinations is the focus of Lufthansa Airlines for summer 2026. Next summer, Lufthansa will fly from Frankfurt to St. Louis and Cape Town five times a week, to Rio de Janeiro six times a week, to Raleigh/Durham and Nairobi daily, and to Washington fourteen times a week.


Due to continuing high demand for Scandinavian destinations, Lufthansa will be adding Trondheim (Norway) to its flight schedule from Frankfurt four times a week for the first time from May 1, 2026. Supplemented by the service in Munich, Lufthansa will then fly at least once a day from Germany to Norway's third-largest city. Other Northern European destinations such as Bergen, Stavanger, and others will also be expanded.


In Munich, the summer season will be extended: two long-haul destinations added in winter 2025/26 will also continue to be operated next summer. Sao Paulo in South America will be included in the summer flight schedule with three weekly flights, as well as Johannesburg in South Africa. All destinations will be served by the Airbus A350-900, one of the most modern aircraft in the world.


Due to the high cost burden for flights to and from Germany, Lufthansa Airlines will reduce more than 50 frequencies on feeder routes from the 2026 summer flight schedule, for example between Munich and Cologne, Düsseldorf and Berlin, or between Frankfurt and Leipzig or Nuremberg. Other connections, such as from Munich to Münster/Osnabrück or Dresden, are under review.


In addition, the connections from Frankfurt to Toulouse and from Munich to Tallinn and Oviedo will be discontinued next spring for economic reasons. Tallinn and Oviedo will still be accessible to Lufthansa guests from Frankfurt, and Toulouse via Munich.

New at SWISS:

From March 29, 2026, SWISS will offer flights from Zurich to Poznan, Poland's fifth-largest city, for the first time. During the summer months of July and August, SWISS will also add the Croatian port city of Rijeka on Kvarner Bay to its schedule. In addition, the airline is increasing frequencies from Zurich on various European routes, including Alicante, Valencia, Manchester, Montpellier, Tirana, Budapest, and Venice. On the long-haul route, SWISS will offer daily flights to Tokyo in April, May, and October; during the rest of the season, there will be flights to the Japanese capital will five times a week.

New at Austrian Airlines:

Austrian Airlines' 2026 summer flight schedule is diverse. Greece, Spain, and Italy are traditionally at the top of the popularity scale for travelers – with some new destinations being added and frequencies increased. And a success story continues – thanks to strong demand last summer, the “coolcation” destinations (such as Sylt, Edinburgh, and the Lofoten Islands) will be resumed and even expanded in 2026.

New at ITA Airways:

As a small preview of its 2026 summer flight schedule, ITA Airways announces its return to London Heathrow with the resumption of the Rome Fiumicino–London Heathrow route, which will be operated twice daily. ITA Airways' detailed summer schedule will be published at a later date.

In addition, during the peak summer season, direct flights will be offered from Rome Fiumicino and Milan Linate to popular vacation destinations in Greece, Spain, and the Italian islands, providing summer vacationers with more travel options.

Throughout the summer season, ITA Airways will continue to work hard to expand connections from its Rome Fiumicino hub, while offering Italian hospitality, style, innovation, and connectivity to meet the changing needs of travelers worldwide.

 

New at Brussels Airlines:

Brussels Airlines will add Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) to its route network. It is the Belgian airline's eighteenth destination in sub-Saharan Africa and strengthens Brussels Airlines' position as an Africa expert within the Lufthansa Group. From June 2026, Kilimanjaro will be connected twice a week. In addition, Brussels Airlines will increase flights to Freetown (Sierra Leone) from five to six flights per week and add an additional flight on Thursdays.

Within its European route network, Brussels Airlines is increasing capacity on existing routes, particularly in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.

New at Edelweiss:

Edelweiss is expanding its long-haul offering from Zurich in summer 2026. From June, there will be twice-weekly flights to Windhoek in Namibia. The airline is also increasing the frequency of flights to Seattle, Punta Cana, and Tampa and extending its seasonal flights to Halifax, Cape Town, and Colombo. Edelweiss is thus responding to the growing demand for diverse and attractive holiday destinations.

New at Discover Airlines:

Discover Airlines is expanding its short-haul services and will fly to Shannon in Ireland and Brindisi in Italy for the first time. Both routes will operate twice weekly from Frankfurt.

The island of Cyprus is also included in Discover Airlines' flight schedule for the first time. From the end of March, there will be daily flights from Frankfurt and Munich to the port city of Larnaca – one of the oldest cities in the world. There will be two flights a day from Frankfurt on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, as well as two flights a day from Munich on Fridays and Sundays. These routes were previously offered by Lufthansa.

On the long-haul route, the connection from Frankfurt to the Seychelles, which was originally only planned for the winter season, will now be offered year-round. In addition, there will be an additional fifth flight from Frankfurt to Las Vegas every Saturday.
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