Lufthansa to operate hourly domestic shuttle flights

This winter Lufthansa is introducing hourly flights on three of its domestic German routes: from Frankfurt to Hamburg, Munich and Berlin. For example, on weekdays between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m., flights from Hamburg to Frankfurt will depart every hour on the hour. In the mornings and evenings, some twice-hourly services will also be operated. Departure times for flights to and from Berlin, however, will always be at 45 minutes past the hour. Customer response to Lufthansa’s expanded flight schedule from Berlin has been very positive, and a further three new tourist destinations will be added this winter. Lufthansa has already welcomed more than 600,000 additional passengers onboard its new flights from Berlin. In September, the airline launched its first non-stop service to the historic city of Marrakech in Morocco, as well as to Funchal, the capital of Madeira, the popular Portuguese holiday island. Both destinations are also served from Düsseldorf. From mid- December, Lufthansa will bring the Alps a little closer to the German capital. Three times a week, the airline will fly winter sports enthusiasts from Berlin to Innsbruck, the Tyrolean capital. From Nov. 1, Lufthansa passengers will also be able to fly directly to Tel Aviv from Düsseldorf in four hours. The new route from Düsseldorf, the regional capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, complements existing connections to Tel Aviv from Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin. From November, travellers will have a choice of 23 flight connections between Germany and Israel, which will be operated with an Airbus A321. Lufthansa is also launching a new service from Munich to the Dutch port of Rotterdam. The new route, which will be operated with a Lufthansa CityLine CRJ900, will offer customers a convenient connection to the economic region centred around Rotterdam and The Hague. (http://www.lufthansa.com)