The company said long-haul routes would take longer to recover with only 70% of pre-crisis capacity due to return by the end of 2020.
The German aviation group, which owns Lufthansa, Eurowings, Austrian Airlines and Swiss, recorded an 80% drop in passengers during the second quarter of this year as the pandemic struck.
This huge reduction in passenger numbers caused Lufthansa Group to slump to a loss of €1.7 billion before interest and tax “despite significant cost reductions” between April and June, compared with a profit of €754 million for the same period last year.
