There were a couple of Lufthansa stories from the weekend that came from various sites.
So presently, there are eighty planes from their fleet being flown on a daily basis.
The chatter from the weekend indicates that they will double this (to 160) in June, and try to jump-start tourist travel. Mind you....this is from a total number of 700-odd planes in their fleet. So it's nowhere near normal.
So this June jump-start.....they listed the destinations (from Frankfurt), and it's mostly all typical summer locations within four hours of Frankfurt. The ARD folks reported: Heraklion (Greece), Crete, Rhodes, Faro, Dubrovnik, Venice, Ibiza (the Spanish isle) and Malaga.
The odds that the planes will be filled? No one is saying much over that. My guess is that in the first ten days....the planes will be no more than 50-percent full. Maybe toward the end of the month....capacity will be reached, and it'll trigger another hundred-odd planes to be added to operations in July.
It's a long way to reach the point where all 700 planes are used on a daily basis. I wouldn't even suggest this occurring in 2020.
Right now, for mid-June, the cost to Crete is around 450 Euro. A year ago, you might have been paying one-third more for that ticket (premium airline, not the discounted airline deal).
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