LISTED: All the new flights to and from Germany in 2026

Airlines have started releasing details of their spring/summer 2026 schedule. 

Passengers travelling from Germany will see a mix of new international connections, expanded short-haul services and some cancellations, particularly for domestic connections.

Here's a look at some of the highlights as well as changes to keep an eye on. 

Lufthansa

Germany's flagship carrier, Lufthansa says it's offering 14,000 weekly connections to 330 destinations in around 100 countries with its spring/summer 2026 timetable.

Long-haul flights from Frankfurt:

Frankfurt – St. Louis (USA): Lufthansa will introduce this new transatlantic route with five weekly flights.

Frankfurt – Cape Town (South Africa): Set to operate five flights per week.

Frankfurt – Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): Expanded to six weekly flights.

Frankfurt – Raleigh/Durham (USA): This will become a daily flight, with seven per week.

Frankfurt – Nairobi (Kenya): This will also become a daily service

Frankfurt – Washington, D.C. (USA): Increased to 14 weekly flights.

New European route

Frankfurt – Trondheim (Norway): Launching May 1st 2026, with four flights per week. Lufthansa says there are planned expansions for other Northern European destinations including Bergen and Stavanger.

Munich long-haul flights

Munich – São Paulo (Brazil): Three flights per week will continue into the 2026 summer schedule.

Munich – Johannesburg (South Africa): Continuing as a three-times per week summer route.

Route cuts and cancellations

Lufthansa is making substantial cuts to short-haul flights within Germany in 2026, citing cost pressures at German airports. Reductions include more than 50 weekly domestic flights, many of which facilitate connections for long-haul flights. These affect:

Munich – Cologne/Düsseldorf/Berlin

Frankfurt – Leipzig/Nuremberg

Fully cancelled routes include:

Frankfurt – Toulouse (France) from summer 2026.

Munich – Tallinn (Estonia) and Munich – Oviedo (Spain).

READ ALSO: Lufthansa to cancel dozens of connections in 2026

Discover Airlines 

Discover, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, is expanding its summer 2026 short-haul network from both Frankfurt and Munich and adding new destinations.

New routes from Frankfurt

Frankfurt – Larnaca (Cyprus): Starts March 29th 2026 with daily flights, and two flights per day on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Frankfurt – Shannon (Ireland): Launches April 4th 2026, with plans for two weekly flights on Thursday and Saturday.

Frankfurt – Brindisi (Italy): Starts June 2nd 2026, operating twice per week on Tuesday and Friday.

Frankfurt – Oulu (Finland): From March 30th 2026, flying three times per week on Monday, Friday and Saturday. Friday flight includes a stop in Kittilä.

New routes from Munich

Munich – Larnaca (Cyprus): Starting March 29th 2026, with daily flights and two flights per day on Friday and Sunday.

Munich – Evenes (Norway): Launches May 13th 2026 with two weekly flights on Wednesday and Saturday.

Munich – Skiathos (Greece): A seasonal route beginning May 14th 2026, with one flight per week on Thursday.

Condor 

Condor, which has its main base in Frankfurt, is widening its European city network and expanding several long-haul services. The summer schedule launches on May 1st 2026. 

It plans three new daily flights on the following routes:

Frankfurt – Barcelona (Spain)

Frankfurt – Budapest (Hungary)

Frankfurt – Venice (Italy)

Frankfurt – London Gatwick (UK)

Condor says routes launched earlier this year including to Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Milan, Rome, Paris, Prague, Vienna, and Zurich will also continue.

Long-haul flights from Frankfurt:

Frankfurt – Bangkok (Thailand): operating daily year-round starting 2026.

Frankfurt –Las Vegas (USA): five weekly flights.

Frankfurt – Johannesburg (South Africa): four weekly flights.

Frankfurt – Mauritius: four weekly flights (subject to seasonal variations). 

Frankfurt – Panama City: three weekly flights.

Ryanair

Ryanair is expanding at smaller German airports next year, with plans for new connections at Saarbrücken and Friedrichshafen Airport on the banks of Lake Constance from March. The airline says it is focusing on expanding regional routes because of the lower operational costs compared to major airports.

All three routes from Saarbrũcken have two flights per week:

Saarbrücken – Trapani (Sicily)

Saarbrücken – Lamezia Terme (Italy)

Saarbrücken – Alicante (Spain)

Here are the new connections at Friedrichshafen:

Friedrichshafen – Alicante (Spain): Two flights per week.

Friedrichshafen – Palma de Mallorca: Three flights per week

Cuts planned

In protest at high airline costs in Germany, Ryanair has announced plans to discontinue 24 routes. It comes despite the German government recently announcing it would reverse the air travel tax increase from next year. 

Nine airports are affected by the cuts: Memmingen, Berlin-Brandenburg, Baden-Baden, Cologne/Bonn, Frankfurt-Hahn, Niederrhein, Hamburg, Nuremberg, and Bremen

READ ALSO: Ryanair to cut more flights from nine German cities

Wizz Air

Low cost Hungarian airline Wizz Air is starting to announce its plans for 2026. In the summer schedule, launching March 2026, new destinations are planned. These include:

Berlin – Bratislava: Plans for four flights per week flown four times a week.

Berlin – Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Flying three times per week from March 30th 

Dortmund – Bratislava: Three flights per week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. 

Other new routes to keep an eye on: 

A few smaller airlines are planning to expand their services in Germany in 2026. For example, Latvian airline Air Baltic will launch a new connection from Hamburg to Tallinn, the Estonian capital. A flight will operate twice weekly on Thursday and Sunday from March 29th 2026. From September 2026, the connection will be offered on Wednesday and Sunday.

Meanwhile, Friedrichshafen will resume domestic flights to Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg from January 12th 2026. Initially, four flights per week are planned to Berlin, four to Düsseldorf, and three to Hamburg. A 78-seat aircraft from the German airline Avanti Air will be used, the airport announced recently.