Germany's largest airline Lufthansa is scrapping its shortest route and replacing it with bus service. The?ultra-short-haul flight between Nuremberg and Munich?which is 86 miles (138 km), will now be?will be?relocated to the road.?
The flight time on the Nuremberg-Munich route was around 40 minutes.
It leads us to the question: Why bus and not a train? It's because Munich, unlike Frankfurt, is not connected to country's mainline rail, Business Traveller reported.?
Lufthansa operates many domestic services across Germany, connecting major cities with its Frankfurt and Munich hubs. These services run alongside a comprehensive rail codeshare network??
As most of the passengers bound to Munich were connecting passengers and considering the economic aspect, the German flag carrier decided to connect its passengers via a bus.??
Interestingly, the flight was operated four times a day, and only 3% of the passengers ended up their journey in Munich back in 2018. Taking that into equation, the route out of Munich will now be replaced with Lufthansa Express Bus, which will take two hours and 15 minutes to connect the two cities.?
However, Lufthansa¡¯s 190km route between Frankfurt and Nuremberg will remain in operation. Its subsidiaries - SWISS and Austrian - will also continue their seasonal services to Nuremberg.
Currently, Lufthansa operates twice daily on the above route.
It takes approximately two hours 23 minutes between Nuremberg and Frankfurt airport.
Lufthansa, along with its subsidiary Eurowings, operates 90% of all domestic flights operated within Germany.