# Lufthansa City Airlines

Lufthansa City Airlines, branded as Lufthansa City, is a German regional airline and a subsidiary of Lufthansa Group. It began operations on 26 June 2024.

## History
### Foundation and background

The airline was founded in 2022 as City Airlines and later renamed Lufthansa City Airlines, it began operations in June 2024, operating from Munich Airport to various cities around Europe. The airline received its air operator's certificate in June 2023 and will operate using the brand name Lufthansa City.
As of October 2023, the airline plans to launch operations in the summer of 2024 with 40 narrow-body aircraft mainly an Airbus A320 fleet transferred from Lufthansa CityLine. Though the fleet will originally consist of Airbus A319 aircraft, Lufthansa is also evaluating the use of Airbus A220s or Embraer jets. City Airlines plans to have bases in Munich and Frankfurt. It was currently seeking crewmembers to operate its planes as of late 2023.
The new subsidiary has created controversy, as Lufthansa has said that its goal with City Airlines is to fill markets that fellow subsidiary Lufthansa CityLine cannot, though unions say that the airline is trying only to circumvent union agreements that limit the size of aircraft that CityLine can fly. Lufthansa is also encouraging CityLine and former Germanwings employees to apply as well.

### Start of operations

In January 2024, the first City Airlines Airbus A319-100 received its new livery which is similar to that of parent company Lufthansa with additional City titles. The airline plans to phase in overall four aircraft of this type prior to the delivery of its ordered Airbus A220s. Shortly after, Lufthansa announced the first six destinations for City Airlines with plans for 17 more in 2025. Also the airline plans to start operations with 4-5 aircraft with one more per month added in 2025 to take over parts of the short-haul network from Lufthansa.
In June 2024, Lufthansa announced it would close Lufthansa CityLine in the foreseeable future and move all its operations to Lufthansa City Airlines, citing unfavorable union contracts at CityLine. In February 2025, Lufthansa Group confirmed to go ahead with the shift of operations to the new company with staff to be relocated in the foreseeable future.

## Destinations

Lufthansa City Airlines announced it would start operations within the route network of parent Lufthansa using the brand name Lufthansa City to six domestic and two European destinations in 2024.
| Country | City | Airport | Notes |
| France | Bordeaux | Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport | |
| Germany | Düsseldorf | Düsseldorf Airport | |
| Germany | Hamburg | Hamburg Airport | |
| Germany | Hanover | Hannover Airport | |
| Germany | Munich | Munich Airport | Hub |
| United Kingdom | Birmingham | Birmingham Airport | |
| United Kingdom | Manchester | Manchester Airport | |

### Codeshare agreements

Lufthansa City Airlines maintains Codeshare agreements with the following airlines:
* Lufthansa

## Fleet

As of February 2025, Lufthansa City Airlines operates the following aircraft:
Lufthansa City fleet :
| Aircraft | In service | On order | Passengers | Notes |
| Airbus A220-300 | — | 40 | TBA | Deliveries from 2026 with 20 options. |
| Airbus A319-100 | 4 | — | 150 | Transferred from Eurowings. |
| Airbus A320neo | 2 | 1 | 180 | Transferred from Lufthansa CityLine. |
| Total | 6 | 41 | | |