The AUA mother is considering downgrading bulk orders.

The corona crisis has paralyzed the aviation industry for a year now. There is currently no improvement in sight, said Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr in an online conversation at the London School of Economics. He does not expect any rapid recovery in air traffic. Instead, newly enacted travel restrictions would put additional obstacles in the way of the airlines. For this reason, passenger numbers will also be at a low level in the coming weeks. 

And from the summer onwards, too, he expects only 40 to 60 percent of the pre-crisis level. In the recent past, the AUA parent company has been toying with reducing the size of the fleet again and again. So it doesn't surprise anyone that Spohr is now openly talking about it. The state-supported Lufthansa Group will use the crisis to position itself more sustainably. An estimated 150 aircraft will no longer be launched for the crane airline in the future. 

But not only the number of planes should shrink, also the planes themselves. Because Lufthansa wants to revise its orders with Airbus and Boeing and switch to smaller aircraft types, such as the portal Simple flying reported. Fuel-guzzling machines such as the Airbus A340 and A380 models or the Boeing 747 have already been sorted out and will no longer take off in the future. Instead, more economical specimens should now be found. According to the report, the airline would already be in talks with the major aircraft manufacturers, and Embraer was also often mentioned.