Lufthansa will operate a record number of flights to Malta this summer, it was announced yesterday.
Weekly flights between Malta and the airline’s German hubs of Frankfurt and Munich will increase to 19 from eight by August.
From April 6, daily flights to Frankfurt will increase to twice daily on weekends and flights to Munich will increase from one to three weekly.
From August 1 there will be two daily flights to Frankfurt all week and five weekly flights to Munich.
Lufthansa made the decision to increase its summer flights after it carried 150,000 passengers to/ from the island last year, an increase of 15 per cent over 2011.
“Malta is increasingly attractive to both leisure and business travellers,” said Carsten Schaeffer, vice president sales and services, southeast Europe, Middle East and Africa.
“It draws summer tourists but it is also a popular MICE [Meetings Incentives Conferences and Events] destination.”
In the other direction, Maltese travellers were gradually discovering the charms of Germany as a tourist destination, added Sylvain Heydlauf, Lufthansa’s general manager, Malta.