Lufthansa said it will be offering 2.9 per cent more seats for the 2014-2015 winter schedule, a slight increase on the previous plans for a 2 per cent increase.
While the number of flights is going down by 2.9 per cent, employing larger aircraft has resulted in the increase in capacity — as measured in available seat-kilometres — Europe’s largest airline by revenue said in a statement on Wednesday.
Lufthansa had initially planned to increase the capacity by 4 per cent for the winter, but halved those plans after an influx of capacity in the first half put pressure on prices.
The new flight plan also sees the main Lufthansa brand, which traditionally serves business routes, flying to more tourist destinations than before, such as the Canary islands, Marrakesh and Split.