Following on from April's landmark ruling by a federal court in Leipzig, Germany to ban flights at Frankfurt between 11pm and 5am in response to complaints about the noise from residents, so German carrier Lufthansa (LH) has been forced to switch its Cape Town, South Africa service from Frankfurt to Munich effective 28 October 2012.
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| Lufthansa Boeing 747 at Cape Town (Jacobus Saayman) |
Lufthansa: Munich, Germany - Cape Town, South Africa
Effective 28 October 2012
- LH574 MUC2200 – 1035+1CPT 343 x13
- LH575 CPT1900 – 0535+1MUC 343 x24
As if the restrictions and its economic consequences at Frankfurt were not enough, Lufthansa has threatened to move some of its traffic to either Brussels, Zurich or Vienna after a referendum in Munich on the 20 June put plans to build a third runway at Munich Airport into jeopardy.
