Lufthansa ends Pakistan operation

[Naveed Yaseen]

KARACHI: German airline Lufthansa announced on Tuesday stopping all flights to Pakistan citing some unspecified commercial reasons.

In a statement, it said flights between Lahore and Frankfurt will close from October 25 without detailing the reasons for the move and just months after it had stopped flights to Karachi.

Lufthansa flights between Pakistan and Germany were launched in October last year. It currently connects Lahore to Frankfurt thrice weekly with an Airbus 300-600.

“Passengers who are already booked on Lufthansa flights from Pakistan to Germany will be informed and rebooked to alternative flight connections via Lufthansa gateways.”

The German carrier had stopped flights to Karachi earlier this year, just months after it resumed flights to Pakistan after a gap of almost nine years. It had rolled back its operations in 1998.

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