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Lufthansa is resuming flights to Tripoli on 2 February. The Libyan capital will be served thrice weekly – on Mondays, Thursday and Sundays – from Frankfurt. Flight LH1312, operated by an Airbus A319, will depart from Frankfurt in the morning hours on those days, landing in Tripoli three hours later. The return flight as LH 1313 will depart from Tripoli in the afternoon. Last year Lufthansa temporarily suspended flights to and from Libya because of the political unrest in the country.
The Houston Airport System announces it will welcome its first double-deck A380 at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) on August 1, 2012, when Lufthansa upgrades the aircraft on its Houston to Frankfurt service. Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport will be Lufthansa's fourth A380 market served in the United States. The A380 is the largest passenger jet in the world, with 63 percent more cabin space than the next largest aircraft, the Boeing 747-400. The new jet will carry up to 526...
Lufthansa is expanding its presence in the dynamic Chinese market and next year will be resuming its service to Shenyang and launching a new route to Qingdao. From 26 March 2012, an Airbus A340 with a seating capacity of 266 passengers will take off from Frankfurt for Shenyang, a key industrial centre in northeastern China. From there, the flight will continue onwards to Qingdao in Shandong Province, connecting the port city on the Yellow Sea to Lufthansa's global route network for the first...
Starting with the summer flight schedules 2012, Lufthansa is flying to Moscow's Vnukovo Airport as a new destination in its route network. The twice-daily flights from Frankfurt will supplement the airline's existing services to Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. From 25 March 2012, Lufthansa will then be laying on six connections daily to the Russian capital. Of the major international airports serving Moscow, Vnukovo is the closest to the city centre. It takes but 35 minutes to get there on the...
In the year ahead, the Lufthansa Group intends to give its strong presence in the capital city and the surrounding region a further boost by stationing a modern Airbus fleet there, considerably expanding its flight plan, creating several hundred new jobs in Berlin and investing more than EUR 60m. "The opening of the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport 'Willy Brandt' in June next year will provide an extra impetus and new market opportunities," commented Carsten Spohr, CEO Lufthansa German Airlines,...
Lufthansa continues to expand successfully and will soon also start offering long-haul flights to Asia from Düsseldorf. As of summer 2012, Lufthansa will be offering its passengers the first non-stop flight from North Rhine-Westphalia to the Japanese capital of Tokyo. The new route will be launched on 1 June 2012 and shall be offered six times per week with an Airbus A 340-300. The launch represents the next step as the airline continues to consistently expand the offer at its Düsseldorf hub. “...
Next summer Lufthansa is launching a new service from Munich to Mexico City. The new route will be operated from 26 March 2012 by an Airbus A340-600. From that date on, Mexico City will be served five times a week from Munich, supplementing the daily flights already operated by Lufthansa from Frankfurt. “We are delighted to be able to offer a connection from our Munich hub to Central America. In economic terms, in particular, Mexico is gaining in importance for the Bavarian market,” says...
Lufthansa is today launching a six-month biofuel trial on regular scheduled flights. A Lufthansa Airbus A321 with the registration D-AIDG will fly the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Hamburg route four times daily. One of its engines will run on a 50/50 mix of regular fuel and biosynthetic kerosene. The biofuel for jet engines has been approved by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Since biokerosene has similar properties to those of conventional kerosene it can be used for all aircraft...
Frequent flyers who have achieved Senator status now have an opportunity to relax in style at Lufthansa’s largest airport lounge. In the Departures area of Terminal 1 at Frankfurt, top customers can for the first time enjoy a modern wellness area with luxury facilities that include ten showers and two spa rooms. Another entirely new addition to the Senator Lounge is the City Lights Bar, whose name – spelled out in one-metre-high letters – forms an effective room divider. In the centre of the...
Lufthansa is expanding its services to the United Kingdom and is laying on flights to Aberdeen, its sixth UK destination in the winter schedules 2011/12. Starting on 30 October 2011, the airline will for the first time be operating thrice-daily on the route from Frankfurt, linking the major port on the east coast of Scotland with the Frankfurt hub and from there into Lufthansa's global network. The Lufthansa CityLine regional subsidiary will operate the flights with its modern Embraer 190...
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