A MAJOR airline has scrapped one of its routes from the UK due to rising fuel costs.
Lufthansa has announced that it is axing its route between Glasgow and Frankfurt, Germany, this winter as the Iran War continues to affect fuel prices.
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The German flag carrier has already stopped selling flights on the route, with the last direct flight between Glasgow and Frankfurt scheduled for May 31.
A Lufthansa Group spokesman told The Herald: “Following the decision to discontinue Lufthansa CityLine flights effective immediately and to reduce unprofitable flights in the future due to high kerosene prices, the Lufthansa Group’s summer schedule will be reduced by just under one percent of available seat-kilometers.
“To compensate for this, Lufthansa has taken immediate action and will consolidate the flight schedules of all Lufthansa Group airlines, cancelling 20,000 flights by the end of October.
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“As a result of these decisions, flights to Glasgow will no longer be operated by Lufthansa via Frankfurt, but for the time being, by Edelweiss via Zurich offering access to the Swiss International Air Lines network.”
Flights between Glasgow and Frankfurt were first launched back in 2018 and currently there are 13 flights a week.
Lufthansa usually uses an Airbus A320 for this route, with between 168 and 180 seats.
As a result, this would mean the route carries as many as 2,340 passengers a week or 9,360 passengers over a month.
The airline previously announced that it plans to cancel more than 20,000 flights this summer as a result of rising fuel costs.
Most of the routes impacted will be short haul, with the airline also shutting down its subsidiary airline, CityLine.