This summer Lufthansa will operate 13,304 flights per week on average, compared with 12,853 flights in summer 2010 – an increase of 3.5 per cent.
During the forthcoming summer timetable, Lufthansa will offer flights to 211 Lufthansa destin-ations in 84 countries, as against 204 destinations in 81 countries last year.
“In terms of destinations and routes, we have never offered our passengers such a wide choice of flights,” says Thierry Antinori, chief marketing officer on the Lufthansa German Airlines board.
“We are expanding in all our traffic areas, not just on long-haul routes, but once again in Europe, too.” The summer timetable will be valid from March 27 to October 29.
This summer, passengers will be able to fly on the A380, the most modern aircraft in the Lufthansa fleet, to five destinations: Johannesburg, New York (John F. Kennedy), Beijing and San Francisco (from May 10) and Tokyo (Narita).
A sixth destination, which has yet to be announced, will be included in the A380 schedule by the middle of the year. “Despite a significant increase in available capacity, on many flights we will be able to achieve our former seat occupancy levels,” says Mr Antinori.
The 2011 summer timetable includes four new summer destinations and holiday resorts: Antalya, Ibiza (from Munich), Palermo (from Frankfurt and Munich) and Trondheim (from Frankfurt). Lufthansa is also expanding its offering for leisure travellers by adding eleven new flights to existing, attractive holiday destinations.
Non-stop flights this summer will be operated from Frankfurt to Westerland/Sylt, Rostock, Bastia/Corsica, Olbia/Sardinia, Genoa/Liguria and Split/Dalmatia. In the summer months, popular holiday destinations such as Bastia/Corsica, Bergen/Norway, Dubrovnik/Croatia, Inverness in Scotland, Jersey/Channel Islands, Keflavik/Iceland, Naples/Italy, Newquay/Cornwall and Olbia in Sardinia are only a few hours away from Düsseldorf or Hamburg.
Lufthansa passengers have a choice of 23 flights per week to the Spanish island of Majorca from five German airports. From Frankfurt and Düsseldorf there is even a daily service. Passengers can also reach the Mediterranean beach of their dreams easily and without changing planes. During the summer, Lufthansa will serve about 30 destinations on the Mediterranean. “With Lufthansa, holiday travellers enjoy a full service and travel comfort, and thanks to the convenient departure and arrival times of flights at weekends, they can relax right from the word go,” says Mr Antinori. (Source: Lufthansa)