Lufthansa

The Lufthansa history is dense, and exciting. Deutsche Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr merged in 1926 to form Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft. The new airline’s fleet comprised 162 different aircraft. Lufthansa acquired shares in Dereluft, which had been founded in 1921.

And then in 1934, Lufthansa was the first company to deliver mail across the South Atlantic. They increased their reach during the later 1930s to cities that includedBangkok and Santiago de Chile. But this comes to a halt at the end of World War II when Lufthansa went into receivership and then got liquidated.

Aktiengesellschaft / Luftverkehrsbedarf was formed in 1953 but they changed their name to Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft in 1954. They reinstated their services to the Americas and the Middle East in 1955.

International flights return! Lufthansa will re-introduce direct services to Cape Town from the 2nd of April 2021. The flights will operate three times a week with flights departing Cape Town on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 22h15, arriving in Frankfurt the following day. The airlines has also announced that from the 1st of April 2021, there will be five weekly flights between Johannesburg and Frankfurt. Flights will depart OR Tambo International on Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun at 19h00, arriving in Frankfurt the following day.

Lufthansa recently announced that they will be increasing the number of their weekly flights between Cape Town and Munich from five non-stop weekly flights to 7. The airline will now operate a daily service between the two cities. The new schedule will only be implemented until the end of South Africa’s summer season, after which the airline will go back to operating five flights a week.