(TAN): Lufthansa is seeing a sharp rise in intercontinental and intra-European bookings for the Christmas and New Year travel season ahead with up to 400% more people booking destinations overseas as well as Southern and Northern Europe last week than the week prior.
Especially in demand were flights to South Africa (Cape Town, Johannesburg), Namibia (Windhoek), the Canary Islands, Madeira and sunny destinations in the Mediterranean, but also areas in Northern Finland, the airline said.
“As soon as travel restrictions fall, we are seeing a significant increase in bookings. This is especially true for the vacation season around Christmas and New Year. Taking into account the highest hygiene and safety standards, we want to fulfill our guests’ vacation dreams wherever possible. In the coming weeks, we will therefore continue to flexibly adjust our flight schedules to demand at short notice,” said Harry Hohmeister, member of the executive board of Deutsche Lufthansa.
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Lufthansa is responding to the increased demand with new flights to and from destinations in Europe, but also by increasing the frequency of existing connections at favorable conditions.
For example, Lufthansa now flies from Frankfurt and Munich to almost every island in the Canary Islands and will offer non-stop flights from Frankfurt to the islands of La Palma and Fuerteventura from December 19 for the first time. Seville and Palermo will also be back in the flight schedule from Frankfurt and Munich. From Frankfurt, Heraklion on the Greek island of Crete, which can also boast significantly warmer temperatures in winter, is also on the program.
Additonally, the snow-assured and spectacular ski resorts in Northern Finland are back in the flight schedule. Thus one reaches over the holidays from Frankfurt Ivalo and Kuusamo as well as from Munich Kittilä.
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For flights from Frankfurt to Majorca, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Madeira, Malta, Larnaca/Cyprus and Faro/Algarve and from Munich to Majorca, Faro/Algarve, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife, capacities have been significantly expanded and these sunny destinations are now offered several times a week in some cases.
Lufthansa’s classic routes will also be reintroduced. These include destinations such as Dublin, Gdansk, Salzburg, Turin and Naples from Frankfurt, and Paris, Madrid, Helsinki, Athens, Rome, Oslo, Warsaw and Lisbon from Munich.
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