Lufthansa adds UK ski flights, including to Austria

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• Phillip says:

  23 Jul23 July 06:39

  I’m surprised the LH flights to Salzburg haven’t been delegated to Eurowings who fly many other leisure routes out of Austrian Airports to Italy, Spain etc.

  • abc says:

    23 Jul23 July 10:57

    Not only that, but LH doesn’t usually fly any routes that don’t go to Munich or Frankfurt, so it’s quite a bit of a strategy change that they are adding these new routes.

    • roger says:

      23 Jul23 July 11:10

      Yes, surprisingly that from London we have a destination other than FRA or MUC.
      They don’t fly to BER either as LH.

    • Londonsteve says:

      23 Jul23 July 21:13

      They probably (rightly) decided that in the snobby U.K. market they wouldn’t have the brand prestige to get away with charging silly prices without the Lufthansa name behind it, especially not when flying from LHR and targeting an ordinarily BA flying customer base.

  • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

    23 Jul23 July 11:26

    We had in 2022 a short lived BA Cityflyer ski route from MAN. Quite a novelty. Only flew Sat and Sun and meant you could fly from LCY to MAN on a Sat and MAN to LCY on Sun when the aircraft was repositioning back to its home base.

• Qrfan says:

  23 Jul23 July 06:54

  To be honest, looking at flights to Southern Europe in September (well after term time resumes), I feel like the rest of short haul pricing has caught up and ski season no longer looks like an outlier!

  • David S says:

    23 Jul23 July 09:39

    And the prices in November and next March aren’t any better. It was almost £700 to Portugal on 1st March in CE on BA’s Gatwick (lower cost !!) flights

• Nige says:

  23 Jul23 July 07:11

  Humberside has an airport!?

  • Ruralite says:

    23 Jul23 July 11:24

    Yes we do at Kirmington, old WW2 base with commercial flights and helicopters out to the North Sea rigs. KLM fly fly from here so you can get virtually anywhere in the world via Schipol, just need them to start bringing down the prices back to pre covid levels because some are still ridiculously high at the moment. Tui fly to Majorca a couple of times a week in summer and you can get to Bulgaria, the Channel Islands and sometimes there are a few weekend specials elsewhere. I think locally people were hoping Tui might add more flights to replace those dropped when Doncaster closed, the departure building isn’t huge but could take a few more daily flights.

    • Matarredonda says:

      23 Jul23 July 11:47

      Is it not the Headquof Eastern Airways and do they fly from it?

      • Ruralite says:

        23 Jul23 July 13:22

        Yes forget them, Aberdeen, Newquay and Channel Islands at the moment I think.

  • yorkieflyer says:

    23 Jul23 July 14:36

    saw mention of Humberside and for a moment thought a new Qatar route…..

• Andrew says:

  23 Jul23 July 08:13

  Avios redemptions on flights to Innsbruck and Salzburg must be one of the better value ones

• NorthernLass says:

  23 Jul23 July 08:43

  Sadly the BACY service from MAN-SZG was a pandemic casualty along with all the other routes. I don’t know if any other carrier actually goes there from the north.

  • Rob says:

    23 Jul23 July 09:19

    Jet2 used to do a lot of Salzburg from the regions.

    • Alex says:

      23 Jul23 July 10:06

      Still do I think but more of a Christmas market thing I think?

      • Rob says:

        23 Jul23 July 10:35

        The airport is full of Jet2 aircraft at Feb half term.

• Andrew. says:

  23 Jul23 July 09:00

  It’s always a secondary peak in September. All the Grannies & Aunties on Childcare Duty abandon the shores as soon as the schools go back.

  Likewise the working people who don’t have kids, grab the opportunity of OTB free lounges.

  But. Don’t miss the Scottish droop if you are looking for something. They will mostly be back by the 15th so there are some little gems in the pricings.

• smitrax says:

  23 Jul23 July 09:04

  Am I likely to have any problems on a 3 night IHG stay if I want to book the first night via Amex (for the benefits) and the other two with points? Is just a case of doing the two bookings and then send ing the hotel an email?

  • The real Swiss Tony says:

    23 Jul23 July 09:10

    The hotel may want you to use the room credits on the first night.

  • John says:

    23 Jul23 July 10:13

    They may get confused and empty the room of your belongings on the second morning

    • Matarredonda says:

      23 Jul23 July 11:49

      I often doand all you need to do is tell reception when you check in.

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      23 Jul23 July 11:58

      Never had that happen to me and I often book single nights as part of a longer stay.

  • Always Somewhere Else says:

    23 Jul23 July 11:08

    IME they’ll require you to use the dining credit on the FHR night only- they won’t let you transfer it to other nights. The main benefit of FHR is the guaranteed 4pm late check out so if that would be helpful for you I’d try and stack this the other way around. The other thing to consider is FHR provides a space available upgrade which you may only get for one night or not at all if you want to keep the same room throughout your stay (or they may give it to you throughout if you have IHG status). Definitely email them and explain what you’re doing though. They will not necessarily clock its one stay over two bookings which could be a problem if the hotel is at or close to capacity.

• The real Swiss Tony says:

  23 Jul23 July 09:09

  I suspect the reason this is LH not OS is that – believe it or not – Austrian don’t fly from Salzburg. So that would mean taking the plane from the finely sculpted LHR-VIE schedule.

  A while back – possibly as part of the pandemic bail out – OS agreed to stop flying sectors under a certain length, which included SZG-VIE. And it’s been some years since FRA-SZG was operated by OS metal.

  • Richie says:

    23 Jul23 July 09:46

    My guess is the LH flights are possibly M routings FRA-LHR-FDH/SZG-LHR-FRA.

    • @mkcol says:

      23 Jul23 July 11:11

      I was imagining it as a W pattern with the aircraft positioning to/from FDH (assuming it’s not based there) then operating FDH-LHR-SZG-LHR-FDH

      Can’t be bothered to look at the full timings to figure it out.

      • abc says:

        23 Jul23 July 18:06

        Would be pretty inefficient to position an aircraft in FDH for this, while LH have like 20 flights to London every day. What they’re actually doing is replacing flights to Munich with flights to FDH and SZG on these days (you can very easily verify that by just looking at LHR-MUN flights on 16/17 Dec and compare with the week before).

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