Lufthansa is continuous to expand its services to popular leisure travel destinations. The recent summer timetable includes five new attractive holiday destinations: Mahón, Jerez de la Frontera, Cardiff, Glasgow and Varna. Within the long-haul segment, Lufthansa is launching a brand new service from Munich to Vancouver at the west coast of Canada as well as the present connection from Frankfurt. From July, passengers in Europe may also be ready to book and experience the brand new product and fare concept for Germanwings, with the intention to gradually take over Lufthansa’s point-to-point routes. In the summertime timetable, Lufthansa customers can have a decision of flights to 218 Lufthansa destinations in 82 countries (previous year: 216 destinations in 83 countries). The summer timetable runs from Sunday, 31 March to Saturday, 26 October 2013.
“This summer we’re again offering new flights to fantastic holiday destinations round the Mediterranean and expanding our expertise within the holiday travel segment,” says Jens Bischof, Member of the Lufthansa German Airlines Board.
New attractive holiday destinations
Whether they’re taking a beach vacation, a discovery tour or a city break – passengers can benefit from the full service of a scheduled airline once they fly with Lufthansa to their holiday destination. Five attractive seasonal destinations, so that they can be served in the course of the summer months, were added to the timetable:
A new service is planned to the Balearic island of Menorca, the smaller sister island of Mallorca. Non-stop flights from Munich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Berlin will land in Mahón, the capital of Menorca.
The Andalusian city of Jerez de la Frontera within the Spanish holiday region of Costa de la Luz may be served this summer from Düsseldorf and Frankfurt.
The Bulgarian resort of Varna at the Black Sea is another new, sun-blessed destination on the way to be served from Düsseldorf.
Flights to 2 new British destinations will even depart from Düsseldorf: Cardiff, the capital of Wales, is a perfect start line for holidays at the coast or within the Welsh mountains. Glasgow, the biggest city in Scotland, is renowned for its vibrant arts scene in addition to for its architecture and design. The spectacular scenery within the Scottish Highlands makes Glasgow a favored destination for discovery tours. This route might be served all year round.
This summer, vacationers will profit from an additional six new connections to holiday regions round the Mediterranean. These, combined with existing summer destinations, will every now and then bring to twenty-five the variety of seasonal destinations in Lufthansa’s route network, most of on the way to be served from several airports in Germany. In July and August, the variety of flights to holiday destinations can be further increased. Passengers who want to book a flight to at least one of the above-mentioned tourist destinations plus a hotel and a rental car with a single mouse click can prepare a total holiday package in the course of the holiday portal (www.lufthansaholidays.com).
Vancouver now served from Munich
Lufthansa is expanding its long-haul services. This summer, it really is introducing a brand new route from Munich to Vancouver at the west coast of Canada to counterpoint its existing service from Frankfurt. From 16 May 2013, the brand new path to the most important city in British Columbia could be served daily with an Airbus A330. Vancouver is a significant centre for trade and commerce. It also has Canada’s largest seaport and is home to the headquarters of various forestry and mining companies. Many IT companies have settled within the surrounding region. Further, Vancouver is a well-liked tourist and holiday destination.
Business Class retrofit being speeded up
Lufthansa is speeding up the retrofit of its new Business Class cabin. It’s miles already installed on all recently delivered Boeing 747-8s and on three Airbus A330 aircraft. However, the former Business Class product will now get replaced earlier than originally planned on all Lufthansa’s existing long-haul aircraft. Lufthansa is investing one other 50 million euros in converting all its aircraft by the summer of 2015 on the latest. “Our new Business Class has had an even response from customers. We’re therefore speeding up the retrofit and feature put aside 50 million euros for this purpose apart from the refitting costs. By 2015, we are going to have installed new seats across our long-haul fleet – not just in Economy and primary Class, but in addition in Business Class,” Jens Bischof explains.
FlyNet now available almost worldwide
To date, Lufthansa has equipped 88 aircraft, and thus virtually its entire long-haul fleet, with FlyNet, its broadband Internet service. The one exceptions are a number of Boeing 747-8s and Airbus A380s, and next year these aircraft types also are owing to be equipped with the innovative technology. FlyNet is now available almost worldwide, except within the airspace over China, as a printed licence has not yet been granted. The “Sport 24” channel within the free FlyNet portal offers live TV on the highest level. Passengers can now also check the status in their connecting flight at the portal or register while they’re still inside the air.
New Boeing 747-8 service to Hong Kong
The latest addition to the Lufthansa fleet, the Boeing 747-8, has rapidly become a favorite among Lufthansa passengers. The “Queen of the Skies” is currently deployed on routes to Washington and L. a., in addition to to Bangalore and Delhi in India. In the beginning of the summer timetable, Lufthansa is because of accept further deliveries of this state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly jumbo. This year, Lufthansa will be given five new Boeing B747-8s from Seattle. On the end of March, Frankfurt – Hong Kong becomes the following path to switch to the hot aircraft.
Germanwings taking up routes from Lufthansa
At the beginning of the summer timetable, Germanwings is taking up a complete of six of the purpose-to-point services that thus far was operated by Lufthansa, starting with the routes from Hamburg to Vienna, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Dubrovnik, Nice and Palma de Mallorca. From 1 July of this year, further routes will gradually be operated by the recent Germanwings. Customers and the public should be informed in good time. Passengers who’ve already booked a Lufthansa flight that’s transferred to Germanwings could be automatically rebooked on Germanwings. All Lufthansa’s intra-European routes that aren’t routed in the course of the airline’s Frankfurt and Munich hubs are as a result of be taken over by Germanwings, which is able to offer new, attractive fares.
With the introduction of the 2013 summer timetable, Lufthansa is withdrawing its services to Perm and Kazan in Russia for financial reasons. Mutually, however, the airline is increasing frequencies on its routes to Nizhny Novgorod and Samara.
This summer, the Lufthansa Group airlines – Austrian, Brussels, Germanwings, Lufthansa and SWISS – will together serve 285 destinations in 102 countries on four continents from their hubs in Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Zurich. They may also complement each other’s services by offering numerous codeshare flights.
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