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Lufthansa is adding six new destinations to its
summer flight schedule. On average, the German airline will be
operating 12,853 flights weekly in the summer schedules, which
equals last year’s figures. The seating capacity will be slightly
higher, than in the previous year due to a fleet renewal and use
of larger aircraft.
On the network side, Lufthansa will add Rostock-Laage
at the German Baltic Sea coast, the Italian cities of Bari and
Palermo, Zadar in Croatia, Chisinau, the capital of Moldova and
the Uzbek capital of Tashkent to the new summer schedule.
Lufthansa is serving 204 destinations in 81 countries in the
summer timetable. The summer timetable is valid from Sunday, 28
March, to Saturday, 30 October 2010.
“With more than 200 destinations this summer,
including six newcomers, we are offering passengers an attractive
timetable of outstanding quality in respect of flight
connections,” said Uwe Mueller, Vice President Asia & Pacific -
Lufthansa German Airlines. “We have adapted flight schedules to
demand, and we have especially taken care of the needs of our
strongly growing number of Asian customers.” Since 2009
Lufthansa’s Asian customer base on its routes to and from
Asia Pacific equals the number of European passengers for the
first time.”
Lufthansa
has included a new destination in the long-haul network. Starting
on 28 March, the airline will be operating thrice-weekly
flights with its PrivatAir partner ex Munich to Tashkent, the
capital of Uzbekistan. Furthermore, thrice-weekly flights with an
Airbus A330 are to be resumed ex Munich to Miami in addition to
the existing connections from Frankfurt and Dusseldorf. Non-stop
flights from Munich to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia will be increased
from two to three weekly, alongside the daily flight from
Frankfurt. Lufthansa is also considering several new flight
connections to Iraq (Baghdad, Erbil).
One of the
highlights in the summer flight schedules are Lufthansa’s
inaugural services with the
Airbus A380. According to current planning, the world’s biggest passenger aircraft will commence
scheduled flights in the airline’s intercontinental route network
from June 2010. Lufthansa’s first A380 destinations will be named at
the beginning of April. Bookings can then commence for the first
flights with the new Lufthansa flagship.
Lufthansa has optimised its timetable in Germany and
Europe with four new destinations and 15 additional
connections. Daily flights from the Munich hub to Chisinau, the
capital of Moldavia in south-eastern Europe, will be available
from 22 April. Also new in the timetable are
Rostock/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as Zadar/Croatia and
Bari/Italy on the Adriatic. These destinations will be served
non-stop from Munich – Bari with daily flights, Zadar with flights
on Saturdays, Rostock with flights on Saturdays and Sundays.
Some European destinations will be served in summer with flights
from further German airports in addition to the existing
connections. Tallinn, capital of Estonia, for example, will be
served for the first time non-stop from Munich. The number of
non-stop connections ex Dusseldorf has been raised by a further
six: Athens/Greece, Edinburgh/Great Britain, Gdansk/Poland,
Dubrovnik/Croatia, Lisbon/Portugal and Naples/Italy. In the
summer timetable, passengers can fly non-stop from Stuttgart to
Athens and Manchester/UK. Daily flights are also available between
Dresden and Milan/Malpensa in northern Italy. Naples, Italy’s
third largest city, will be served daily from Frankfurt
alongside connections from Dusseldorf, Munich and Milan.
Lufthansa Italia is expanding its route network out of Milan/-Malpensa
with flights in summer to Warsaw and Stockholm as well as the Italian destinations of Palermo (new in the timetable) and
Olbia. All in all, the Milan-based carrier will then be offering
172 flights weekly to 13 destinations in Italy and Europe.
The Lufthansa Group airlines – Austrian Airlines, bmi, Brussels
Airlines and SWISS – will also be commencing their summer
flight schedules on 28 March. Together with Lufthansa, all five
airlines will be serving 274 destinations in 104 countries on
four continents from their hubs at Brussels, Dusseldorf,
Frankfurt, London-Heathrow, Munich and Zurich with their own as
well as numerous codeshare flights.
New Destinations in
Lufthansa Summer Timetable 2010
• Munich – Tashkent 3x /weekly
(Tu, Th, Su)
• Munich – Chisinau daily
• Munich – Rostock/Laage
2x /weekly (Sa, So)
• Munich – Zadar 1x /weekly (Sa)
•
Munich – Bari daily
• Milan/Malpensa – Palermo daily
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