Condor will no longer run its flights in between Germany and several U.S. airports after the German Federal Court of Justice reversed a judgment needing Lufthansa to supply feeder flights to the airline company’s network.
The airline company will stop its services from Frankfurt to Baltimore (BWI), Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP), Phoenix (PHX), and San Antonio (SAT) in the U.S., and Edmonton (YEG) and Halifax (YHZ) in Canada.
The just recently reversed procedure permitted U.S. travelers to take a trip to Frankfurt on Condor flights.
Condor Airbus A330-900neo plane in Frankfurt, Germany on August 6, 2024. The airline company will stop serving 6 airports in North America in 2025. Boarding1Now/Getty Images
Condor stated in a declaration shown Newsweek: “After years of legal procedures in between Lufthansa and Condor concerning an industrial contract for feeder flights throughout Europe and Lufthansa’s legal commitment to give access to Condor offered Lufthansa’s dominant market position, there has actually been an interim choice, last judgment is pending, by the court affecting the basic scenarios and conditions of accessing these feeder flights.
“Due to this, Condor is required to evaluate and change its summer season 2025 flight schedule in the U.S. and Canada in advance of the peak summertime scheduling season.”
Condor will still serve 12 entrances in North America consisting of New York (JFK), Boston (BOS), Miami (MIA), Los Angeles (LAX), San Francisco (SFO), Seattle (SEA), Portland (PDX), Las Vegas (LAS) and Anchorage (ANC) in the U.S. and Toronto (YYZ), Calgary (YYC) and Vancouver (YVR) in Canada.
Dr. Jens Boyd, Commercial Director for Condor stated in a declaration shown the City of San Antonio: “This is not a choice we ignore. Condor has actually cultivated strong expert and individual ties with San Antonio and the other afflicted neighborhoods throughout the years, and we deeply are sorry for the loss of connection and service this will trigger.
“We stay dedicated to checking out all opportunities for reasonable competitors, though we acknowledge that more legal procedures will take some time to solve.”
The news marks a specific loss for the San Antonio area as Condor’s flight linking SAT to Frankfurt was the location’s very first non-stop path to Europe.
Jenna Saucedo-Herrera, CEO, higher: SATX, a local financial collaboration in the San Antonio location, stated: “This summertime, the San Antonio area showed its strong assistance for trans-Atlantic travel.
“While we comprehend and appreciate Condor’s tough company choice based off the judgment by the German Federal Court of Justice, we stay deeply grateful for their financial investment in San Antonio and their efforts to link SAT to the world. We eagerly anticipate resuming trans-Atlantic service and additional placing our first-rate area on the international phase.
“Air service is an essential engine of financial and organization advancement, enhancing our capability to bring in worldwide financial investment, produce tasks, and supply chances for regional companies to flourish on a worldwide scale. We are dedicated to continuing efforts, along with SAT and Visit San Antonio, to construct and boost our global air service,
