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As part of expanding its network in India, German aviation group Lufthansa will add 9 flights on its India route and deploy larger aircraft on Chennai-Frankfurt sector from the coming winter. The group will offer 75 weekly flights to and from India as against 66 now, a company release said.

The Group operates Lufthansa Airlines, Swiss Air and Austrian Airlines in India and flies across seven destinations namely New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Pune.

Swiss, Austrian and Lufthansa will together offer 78 weekly flights from seven Indian destinations in the upcoming winter schedule beginning from October 29.

As part of capacity expansion, Lufthansa will increase the frequency of its Pune–Frankfurt flights to four per week from the present three, it said, adding the carrier would deploy a larger A340-600 aircraft on Chennai–Frankfurt route. This aircraft has about 80 additional seats capacity as compared to the A340-300 used currently.

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