747 connects through new york by route to frankfurt . sas , the german airline , flies roughly daily from los angeles to chicago , and the company contracts flies with lauda airline , an austrian aircraft , on weekdays , fridays and sundays to drive straight to munich . an german airline , ltu , primarily flies through from los angeles to mannheim and frankfurt on mondays and thursdays . munich is the centre for trips to most of the country ' s smaller cities .
Lufthansa is the German airline.