Eurowings Eyeing Munich Routes

Eurowings is weighing up flying from Munich, a hub for its parent Lufthansa, an executive told a German magazine, as the overall group looks to defend its market share against rival budget airlines.

"We're speaking about it internally. It's an option for 2017," Karl Ulrich Garnadt, Lufthansa group board member responsible for Eurowings, was quoted as saying by WirtschaftsWoche.

Munich has traditionally been used by Lufthansa as a hub for long-haul flights and serving business travel demand from southern Germany.

Transavia, a unit of Air France-KLM, became the first low-cost carrier to set up a base in Munich this year, while easyJet already flies to the airport and Ryanair has also been looking at it, although the airport's boss has said slots at peak times are hard to come by.

Eurowings says it doesn't see itself as competing against Lufthansa, but instead providing flights for more price-sensitive customers who otherwise may not chose to fly at all.