Lufthansa Adds Six New Destinations to Summer Schedule

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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