Lufthansa has announced that it will cut a total of 20,000 flights from its summer schedule, which runs until October, due to the closure of Lufthansa Cityline and rising fuel costs.

This optimized schedule will be loaded gradually, and affected passengers should expect to see these disruptions in their reservations soon – the options available to rectify this mess might not be very accommodating.

The current jetfuel crunch that resulted in sharply rising prices has already turned into a calamity for many airlines, and they are already reacting in many different ways to counter the financial shortfall that is to be expected in the near future when the current fuel hedging runs out, and they have to buy at new market prices.

Most airlines have increased the hated fuel surcharges, and we covered most of them here on LoyaltyLobby. Increased fuel surcharges are especially bad for those of us who want to use miles and use a program that actually levies these surcharges.

Now Lufthansa has escalated its own way of combating these challenges by cutting a total of 20,000 flights from the summer schedule, as the company announced in a communique yesterday.

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