LUFTHANSA Delays Panama City Launch

Lufthansa has postponed the launch of new service between Frankfurt and Panama City by approximately 3 months.

Originally, Lufthansa was set to begin 5x/week service on November 16, 2015. It has now rescheduled the launch to March 2, 2016.

I suspect that the delay is due to low load/booking factors for the flights when reservations for the route opened back in February of this year.

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DaninMCI on July 6, 2015 at 4:23 pm

This seems like an insane route. Panama City isn’t that big. It would be like launching a Frankfurt-Moline, Illinois route. Unless there is some German business entity in the area which would make it a commuting route. I guess there are some German auto plants in Alabama but they would just hub through Atlanta. I would have picked a larger city like St. Louis, Kansas City, Austin, Milwaukee, Tampa or something like that.

Lufthansa Flyer on July 6, 2015 at 5:11 pm

I think they want to play off of COPA’s route network to South & Latin America.
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Lufthansa Flyer on July 6, 2015 at 5:13 pm

Panama City, Panama BTW. Not florida…..
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sonia on October 21, 2015 at 1:56 pm

Sirry it does make sense! Panama City REPUBLIC OF PANAMA……not Florida……
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