From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Wed Mar 25 2009 - 07:39:56 EST
"Eritrean Airlines will cancel its weekly connection to Asmara, thus ending
its service to Germany completely. However, Lufthansa will continue serving
the Eritrean capital thrice weekly via Jeddah, Saudi Arabia"
Frankfurt Airport announces Summer 2009 schedule
25-Mar-2009
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Effective 29-Mar when Europe changes to daylight saving time, Frankfurt
Airport's Summer Timetable 2009 will feature 4,400 passenger and 210 cargo
flight departures per week. This represents a slight 4.0% reduction in the
number of flight offerings compared to last year's summer schedule.
However, passenger flights will decline by only 3.4 percent and
intercontinental traffic will slip by only 0.6% - remaining almost at the
same level as in 2008.
Absent from Frankfurt Airport (FRA) for many years, Pakistan International
Airlines will reintroduce scheduled services twice a week to Lahore and
Karachi, while Air Seychelles will fly once a week to Mahe, the capital of
this island nation in the Indian Ocean. Air India is extending its daily
Mumbai-Frankfurt and Delhi-Frankfurt flights to New York (Newark) and
Chicago. Air India has recently designated FRA as its European hub. Condor
will suspend its flights this summer to Recife, Brazil. Eritrean Airlines
will cancel its weekly connection to Asmara, thus ending its service to
Germany completely. However, Lufthansa will continue serving the Eritrean
capital thrice weekly via Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, Lufthansa will
offer nonstop flights from FRA to Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa in the
Horn of Africa.
In European traffic, the Belgian-based carrier VLM will fly to FRA for the
first time, offering 17 flights per week to the new destination Antwerp (
www.antwerpen.be) on the North Sea coast. Lufthansa will add two new Polish
destinations to its FRA timetable: Rzeszow (www.erzeszow.pl) five times per
week and Poznan (www.poznan.pl) daily. Sun Express will offer daily flights
to the new Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Carpatair will
discontinue its service to Timisoara, Romania, thus ending its
representation in Frankfurt. Estonian Air will also stop flying to FRA this
summer, but Lufthansa will continue to offer daily flights to the Estonian
capital of Tallinn. Air France will delete Lyon from its FRA schedule, but
the French metropolis will remain linked to FRA via four daily
Particularly noteworthy will be Lufthansa's expansion of flight offerings to
the Arabian Peninsula from 30 to 47 connections per week. At the start of
the 2009 Summer Timetable, Lufthansa will serve the Saudi Arabian cities of
Jeddah and Riyadh with daily nonstop connections. Flights to Muscat, Oman,
will also be offered this summer via Abu Dhabi and Bahrain.
(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 25-Mar-09
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