Lufthansa Group’s Airlines Have Accidentally Rebuilt The Holy Roman Empire

Map created by reddit user marten_EU_BR

The map above shows the location of Lufthansa Group’s Airlines.

And surprisingly they’ve more or less accidentally recreated a map of the Holy Roman Empire (see below):

The group currently runs:

• Lufthansa (German)
• Austrian Airlines (Austria)
• Brussels Airlines (Belgium)
• Discover Airlines (Germany)
• Eurowings (Germnay)
• ITA Airways (Italy)
• Swiss International Air Lines (Switzerland)

And as reddit user Archaeogrrrl points out:

Which is even more hysterical cause I’m fairly sure the name comes from Luft (air) and Hansa which refers to the Hanseatic League, a medieval trading guild. So ya know, as all about transporting goods through the insane political makeup of medieval Germany.

And on some of the exclusion of Air Dolomiti:

Air Dolomiti is not one of the major airlines of the Lufthansa Group, because according to Lufthansa Group’s website, the airline is a regional airline that is operationally closely linked to the Lufthansa mainline (the same applies to Lufthansa City, Lufthansa Cityline and Discover, which, like the Lufthansa mainline, only operate flights to and from Frankfurt and Munich).

Edelweiss and SunExpress were also not included for similar reasons.

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