SINGAPORE, 10 November 2025: Lufthansa Group airlines have confirmed details of their summer 2026 flight schedule, featuring new intercontinental and European destinations as well as increased frequencies.
By summer 2026, Lufthansa and its group members — Discover Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, Brussels Airlines, Edelweiss, and ITA Airways — will offer more than 14,000 weekly connections to 330 destinations in approximately 100 countries via their hubs in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, and Italy.
Lufthansa Airlines — Frankfurt and Munich
During the summer of 2026, Lufthansa Airlines 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 14 times a week.
Due to the rising demand for Scandinavian destinations, Lufthansa will add four weekly flights to Trondheim, Norway, from Frankfurt for the first time this summer, starting 1 May 2026. Complementing the existing service from Munich, Lufthansa will operate at least one daily flight from Germany to Norway’s third-largest city and to other northern European destinations, such as Bergen and Stavanger.
Munich Airport is extending its service next summer. Two long-haul destinations, which were already launched in winter 2025/26, will continue to be served next summer. São Paulo in South America will be served three times a week in the summer flight schedule, as will 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 costs associated with flights to and from Germany, Lufthansa Airlines will reduce frequencies on more than 50 feeder routes starting with the summer 2026 flight schedule. These include routes between Munich and Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Berlin, as well as between Frankfurt and Leipzig or Nuremberg. Further connections, such as those from Munich to Münster/Osnabrück or Dresden, are under review.
Flights from Frankfurt to Toulouse and from Munich to Tallinn and Oviedo will be discontinued next spring for economic reasons. Tallinn and Oviedo will remain accessible to Lufthansa passengers from Frankfurt, while Toulouse and Oviedo can still be reached via Munich.
SWISS
From 29 March 2026, SWISS will offer flights from Zurich to Poznań, 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, located on the Kvarner Gulf, to its network. Furthermore, the airline will increase frequencies from Zurich on various European routes, including to Alicante, Valencia, Manchester, Montpellier, Tirana, Budapest, and Venice. On long-haul routes, SWISS will offer daily flights to Tokyo in April, May, and October; during the rest of the season, the Japanese capital will continue to be served five times a week.
Austrian Airlines
Greece, Spain, and Italy traditionally top the list of most popular destinations, with some new destinations being added and flight frequencies being increased. Destinations such as Sylt, Edinburgh, and the Lofoten Islands) will be offered again in 2026.
ITA Airways
As a preview of its 2026 summer schedule, ITA Airways announces its return to London Heathrow with the resumption of the Rome Fiumicino–London Heathrow route, operating twice daily. ITA Airways’ detailed summer schedule will be published at a later date.
Additionally, during the peak summer season, direct flights are offered from Rome Fiumicino and Milan Linate to popular holiday destinations in Greece, Spain, and the Italian islands, thereby providing summer holidaymakers with more travel options.
Brussels Airlines
Brussels Airlines will add Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) to its route network. This will be the Belgian airline’s eighteenth destination in sub-Saharan Africa, strengthening Brussels Airlines’ position as an Africa expert within the Lufthansa Group. From June 2026, Kilimanjaro will be served twice a week. Additionally, Brussels Airlines will increase its flights to Freetown (Sierra Leone) from five to six per week and introduce an additional flight on Thursdays.
Within its European route network, Brussels Airlines is increasing capacity on existing routes, primarily in Spain, Portugal and Italy.
Edelweiss
Edelweiss is expanding its long-haul network from Zurich in summer 2026. Starting in June, Windhoek, Namibia, will be served twice weekly. The airline is also increasing frequencies to Seattle, Punta Cana, and Tampa, and extending its seasonal flights to Halifax, Cape Town, and Colombo. This move reflects Edelweiss’s response to the growing demand for diverse and attractive holiday destinations.
Discover Airlines
Discover Airlines is expanding its short-haul network and will fly to Shannon, Ireland, and Brindisi, Italy, for the first time. Both routes will depart from Frankfurt twice weekly.
For the first time, the island of Cyprus is included in Discover Airlines’ flight schedule. Starting at the end of March, daily flights will operate from Frankfurt and Munich to the port city of Larnaca. From Frankfurt, there will be two flights daily on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. From Munich, there will also be two daily connections on Fridays and Sundays. Lufthansa previously operated these routes.
The long-haul connection from Frankfurt to the Seychelles, originally planned only seasonally (in winter), will now be offered year-round. Additionally, a fifth flight from Frankfurt to Las Vegas will operate every Saturday.
(Source: Lufthansa Group)
