Bengaluru-Munich flight service, stalled due to COVID-19 outbreak, to commence from November

With Lufthansa announcing that it will start flight service between Bengaluru and Munich from November 3, two of the three international routes from Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) which were disrupted due to COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 are back on track.

With Lufthansa announcing that it will start flight service between Bengaluru and Munich from November 3, two of the three international routes from Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) which were disrupted due to COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 are back on track.

In 2019-20, it was announced with much fanfare that Bengaluru would be connected to three new destinations — Munich, Tokyo, and Seattle.

While the Bengaluru-Tokyo and the Bengaluru-Munich routes were supposed to have their inaugural flights on March 29 and March 31, 2020, respectively, the Bengaluru-Seattle route was scheduled to commence from October 2020.

However, with the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent ban imposed by the government, flight services on these routes were stalled.

Japan Airlines, which was scheduled to handle flights on the Bengaluru-Tokyo route, following the restrictions only operated special flights and later under the Air Bubble arrangement, the airline operated regular flights once a week from March 2021.

But from August 2022, it increased the flight frequency to three times a week.

Meanwhile, Lufthansa will be operating three times a week starting November 3.