Premium leisure carrier Beond operated its first commercial flight on Wednesday 15 November between Munich and Malé in the Maldives, which includes a refuelling stop in Dubai DWC. The route is maintained by a premium-configured 44-seat A319 aircraft. The service will run 2-weekly on Wednesdays and Sundays. No other airline operates flights between the two […]
November 22, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Croatia Airlines inaugurated a new service between Zadar, on the Croatian coast, and Munich on Tuesday 31 October. The 545-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays with the Dash 8 aircraft. The airline faces no competition on the route during the winter, however, its fellow Star Alliance member and codeshare partner Lufthansa […]
November 9, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Uzbekistan Airways introduced flights between its hub in Tashkent and Munich on Sunday 29 October. The 4,515-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly, on Fridays and Sundays, with a mix of 190-seat 757 and 150-seat A320neo aircraft. The carrier faces no competition on the route. Flight HY235 departs Tashkent at 06:25 local time, arriving in Munich […]
November 2, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Air Dolomiti (IATA code EN), a wholly-owned Italian subsidiary of Lufthansa, launched seasonal flights between Munich and Jersey on Saturday 27 May. The airline has taken over the route from its parent company. Previously, Lufthansa maintained the service with Air Dolomiti equipment, but now the flights are being operated exclusively by the Italian subsidiary. The […]
June 1, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Based in Verona, Air Dolomiti (IATA code EN) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lufthansa. It currently has a fleet of 17 active aircraft comprising 15 122-seat E195s and two 100-seat E190s (according to planespotters.net). The two E190s have only just joined the fleet having previously been operated by Lufthansa CityLine for Lufthansa Regional. Air Dolomiti’s […]
January 31, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Belfast BHD is set to receive flights from Germany for the first time. On 23 April 2023, Lufthansa CityLine will begin Frankfurt, with the 4-weekly, 1,110-kilometre service using the 100-seat Embraer E190. It will provide an additional option to reach the wider world from Northern Ireland, will be the country’s sole German route following Ryanair’s […]
December 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Greece’s Sky Express (IATA code GQ) has added two new international routes from Athens in the week before the start of the W22/23 season. On Wednesday 26 October the carrier began 5-weekly service on the 1,520-kilometre route to Milan MXP. These two airports are already connected this November by three other carriers according to Cirium […]
November 7, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Back in June we revealed how among western Europe’s biggest country markets for air travel Germany was lagging significantly behind its rivals; France, Italy, Spain and the UK. Schedule data for June indicated that capacity was only at 75% of the level of June 2019, while the other major European countries were all at 85% […]
August 19, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Lufthansa now serves San Diego in California from Munich rather than Frankfurt. The German flag-carrier had served the southern Californian city from its primary hub from March 2018 until the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. Now, after a two-year hiatus, San Diego is back on Lufthansa’s route map, but this time served from […]
April 6, 2022 | Latest Route News +
With a pre-pandemic passenger volume of 47.9 million in 2019, Munich Airport has established itself as Europe’s ninth-largest airport in terms of passenger numbers. It is also the first and so far only 5-Star Airport outside Asia. MUC’s catchment area – one of Europe’s prime business locations Munich Airport’s catchment area features a high density […]
March 21, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America
German leisure airline Condor was Europe’s 34th biggest in 2019, based on departing seats from European airports. According to Cirium data, the airline offered over 8.6 million seats from European airports, as well as 1.6 million seats from non-European airports. In Germany, it ranked fifth with just over five million departing seats, behind Lufthansa (56.6m), […]
February 25, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Croatia Airlines on Monday 15 November began 2-weekly service on the 610-kilometre route from Osijek in eastern Croatia to Munich in southern Germany. The airline, which has not launched many new routes in recent years, will use its Q400s on the new link. No other carrier connects these two airports. The aircraft will serve the […]
November 18, 2021 | Latest Route News +