Frankfurt Airport’s summer timetable, which goes into effect on Sunday, will feature a total of 4,845 departures, passenger and all-freighter flights, per week – a 5.6 per cent rise compared to the 2010 summer schedule, said a spokesman for the airport.
The total number of seats being offered this summer will increase by some 8.3 per cent to 770,000 seats per week. Frankfurt Airport’s Summer Timetable 2011 features 114 passenger airlines serving 298 destinations in 110 countries.
With 280,000 seats available on FRA’s intercontinental routes, up some five per cent, Germany’s leading air transportation gateway will account for 64.5 per cent of the total seat capacity to be offered on all intercontinental flights this summer by Germany’s 16 coordinated commercial airports.
In the intercontinental traffic segment, Condor will commence a twice weekly service in June, directly to Calgary, the gateway to the Canadian Rockies, and to Seattle in the US Pacific Northwest.
Recife on the northeastern coast of Brazil will be added as a newdestination to Condor’s summer programme with one weekly flight from FRA.
Lufthansa recently launched the Airbus A380 superjumbo on regular scheduled routes to America, starting with daily flights to the New York-JFK, followed by a new daily service to San Francisco beginning on May 10.
Brazilian carrier TAM will be flying daily between Frankfurt and Rio de Janeiro, while the Korean metropolis of Seoul will also be served by Lufthansa daily.
Qatar Airways will introduce four additional flights per week to the Gulf region in the Middle East, thus increasing its total number of frequencies to 14 per week. In July 2011, Oman Air will fly daily from FRA to Muscat, Oman.
In the European traffic segment, FRA’s summer timetable will include the new destination of Trondheim in Norway, flown by Lufthansa. Lufthansa will also expand its route network with connections to Palermo, Genoa in northern Italy, to Olbia on the island of Sardinia, and to Bastia in Corsica. Both Condor and Lufthansa will fly to the holiday destination of Split on the Adriatic coast of Croatia. In particular, Lufthansa will add 14 frequencies for a total of 67 weekly connections to the EU capital Brussels, plus 14 additional flights to Basel, for a total of 41 services per week.
Seven extra flights per week will be offered by Lufthansa to the Scandinavian destinations of Bergen in Norway, Goteborg in Sweden, Helsinki in Finland, and Billund in Denmark, as well as the Swiss cities of Geneva and Zurich, and the Austrian capital of Vienna. Furthermore, the Czech capital of Prague and Moscow’s Domodedovo airport will gain seven more flights per week. Spain’s Palma de Mallorca will be served daily by Lufthansa.