EUROPEAN AIRLINES CANCELLED FLIGHTS

Airlines in Europe have been suspending flights or modifying services in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Below are details (in alphabetical order):

  1. Air France: Air France has suspended flights to and from mainland China for much of March.
  2. Austrian Airlines: Austrian Airlines is reducing its flight schedule to Italy in March and April by 40 per cent. This includes a cut in capacity on routes from Vienna to Milan, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples.
  3. Brussels Airlines: For its Italian route network, Brussels Airlines has decided to reduce flights to Rome, Milan, Venice and Bologna by 30 per cent until 14 March.
  4. British Airways: BA has cancelled all flights to and from Beijing and Shanghai until 17 April 2020. It has also merged two daily services to and from Hong Kong until 31 March. BA has also reduced flights to northern Italy. Customers booked to travel between London and northern Italian destinations including Milan (Linate and Malpensa), Turin, Bologna, Venice, Bergamo and Verona up to 15 March 2020 can rebook to a later travel date up to 3 April 2020. The British flag carrier has also announced more than 400 additional flight cancellations between 16 and 28 March. The vast majority – 342 – are short-haul flights to and from the airline’s main base at Heathrow. One daily round-trip from Heathrow to New York has been axed. BA is also cancelling 14 departures and arrivals serving destinations in Italy, France and Albania from Gatwick. A total of 52 services connecting London City to Germany and Italy have been cancelled as well. British Airways will also cut flights to Seoul by 50 per cent, with services operating every other day rather than daily. British Airways also said it would cancel some flights to and from Italy, Singapore and South Korea.
  5. Czech Airlines: Stopping flights to South Korea and cities in northern Italy for at least two weeks.
  6. EasyJet: EasyJet has cancelled flights after seeing a “softening of demand”, with fewer people flying in and out of northern Italy. The budget airline also added that it had seen slower demand for travel across Europe generally, and would continue to monitor the outbreak. A selection of flights, mainly to and from Italy, will therefore be grounded from 13 until 31 March 2020.
  7. Eurowings: Eurowings is reducing its flights to and from Venice, Bologna and Milan until 8 March.
  8. Finnair: Finnair has cancelled 1,100 flights. The airline is due to start talks next week with unions about temporary layoffs of 14-30 days for all its staff in Finland due to the virus. It has cancelled flights to destinations including mainland China, South Korea and Milan Finnair canceled all flights to mainland China and decreased the number of flights to Hong Kong until March 28.
  9. Iberia Airlines: Iberia Airlines has extended its suspension of flights from Madrid to Shanghai, its only route, from Feb. 29 until the end of April.
  10. KLM: KLM has suspended all flights to the Chinese cities of Chengdu, Hangzhou and Xiamen until 3 May. The Dutch carrier has also cut flights to Hong Kong by 50 per cent, offering a service every other day rather than its usual daily service, up until 3 May. It expects to resume flights to Beijing and Shanghai on March 29.
  11. Lot: LOT has extended flight suspensions until March 28.
  12. Lufthansa Group: Flights to mainland China are suspended until 24 April; flights to Tehran in Iran remain suspended until 30 April; and frequencies to Italy, Seoul and Hong Kong have been reduced across the network. Lufthansa will reduce frequencies on various routes to Italy in March. This includes Milan, Venice, Rome, Turin, Verona, Bologna, Ancona and Pisa. In addition, frequencies on domestic routes from Frankfurt to Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and Paderborn and from Munich to Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bremen and Hanover will be reduced.
  13. Norwegian: The airline has decided to cancel 22 long-haul flights between Europe and the US from 28 March to 5 May. Norwegian also has a limited number of flights to Northern Italy and other regions heavily affected by the virus. The carrier said it has already reduced its capacity by up to 15 per cent in 2020.
  14. Ryanair: Europe’s biggest budget airline has reduced capacity by up to 25 per cent for the period from Tuesday 17 March to Wednesday 8 April. Cancellations will mainly affect Italy.
  15. SAS:  has extended its suspension of flights to Shanghai and Beijing until March 29.
  16. Swiss: Swiss is predicted to reduce flight frequencies to and from Florence, Milan, Rome and Venice until the end of April.
  17. Virgin Atlantic: Virgin Atlantic has suspended Heathrow-Shanghai operations until 19 April 2020. It has also confirmed it has reduced its Heathrow-Hong Kong route in March.
  18. Wizz Air: Wizz Air has cancelled flights on specific routes to Northern Italy between 11 March and 2 April 2020. During this period around 60 per cent of total Italian capacity has been cut. Wizz Air said it would decrease the frequency of its Romania, Poland, Italy and Israel routes, cutting two-thirds of all flights on affected routes over three weeks between March 11 and April 2.

 

 

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