Lufthansa - Germanwings

[rhigginson]

Hi,

As Lufthansa shifting services to Germanwings, what is the fate of some of the long-haul routes?

They for example operate services from Düsseldorf to Chicago and Newark. What is likely to be the fate of these routes once LH's DUS hub is effectively closed as result of services being moved to the low cost carrier? Perhaps the LH group / Star Alliance would rather move these services to another airport which is still a hub in the LH group or Star Alliance in Europe?

[Stij]

I'm not a well informed person, but I think it's reasonable to bet they'll just continue these flights as DUS was just an origin/destination (Ruhrgebiet) feeding hubs on the other side of the Atlantic. For operational reasons, it could be United operating these fligths in the future, but I doubt it.

Cheers,

Stij

[sn26567]

Airline Route gives an answer to your question:

Lufthansa has launched codeshare service with germanwings since 01DEC13, initially on Munich – Dortmund route. The codeshare partnership will be expanded to 19 routes to/from Dusseldorf, starting 30MAR14. Lufthansa codeshare service operated by germanwings is only available when connecting from/to another Lufthansa service.

Codeshare routes as follow.

Dusseldorf – Barcelona
Dusseldorf – Basel
Dusseldorf – Bucharest
Dusseldorf – Dresden
Dusseldorf – Geneva
Dusseldorf – Gothenburg
Dusseldorf – Hamburg
Dusseldorf – Leipzig
Dusseldorf – Lyon
Dusseldorf – Milan Malpensa
Dusseldorf – Nuremberg
Dusseldorf – Prague
Dusseldorf – Turin
Dusseldorf – Wroclaw
Munich – Dortmund

[flieger]

In principle, Germanwings was only to be a European operation, for as far as I understood.
I don't think they will ever take long haul planes or routes...

[flieger]

Forgot to mention... it was a bit a reply on Ryanair, Easyjet etc as the short haul landscape changed a lot in the last decade. Don't see why they would do a smiliar shift on long haul...