Russian Flights Victims of Slump as Lufthansa Joins Exodus
- German No. 1 follows EasyJet, Air Berlin in quitting routes
- Capacity crunch looming following collapse of Transaero
An image of a Lufthansa airplane sits on a display banner in Hamburg.
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Russia’s airline connections to the outside world are diminishing as an economic slowdown hurts demand and renders more and more routes unprofitable, with Deutsche Lufthansa AG, British Airways and SAS AB the latest to join an exodus led by discount carrier EasyJet Plc.
Lufthansa will cease flying to Moscow Vnukovo airport, Samara on the Volga and Nizhny Novgorod, east of the capital, with the start of its winter schedule a week from now. That leaves 63 weekly flights to Moscow Domodedovo and St. Petersburg, down from 153 to nine Russian destinations four years ago.