Lufthansa's year-round Frankfurt-Cape Town route launched
International airline Lufthansa’s new direct year-round flight between Frankfurt and Cape Town is scheduled to arrive in Cape Town on Saturday morning.
Passengers on this flight will enjoy a newly retrofitted Airbus A340-300, which boasts 279 seats and offers the airline’s new intercontinental business class, the new premium economy class and economy class.
This route, which will run three times a week in its first year of service, signifies the importance of Cape Town to the Lufthansa group, which also flies seasonally from Munich and Zurich to Cape Town.
With the arrival of the new Frankfurt–Cape Town service, Lufthansa will now serve South Africa with up to 24 weekly flights during the peak travel season.
“For nearly six decades, Lufthansa has connected Africa to the rest of the world and South Africa as a key market remains a strategic focus for the group. Cape Town has risen significantly in global rankings as a preferred destination for both leisure and business travellers and we plan to extend the service to five weekly flights in the Europe winter season of 2017/18,” says Lufthansa sales VP for Africa and the Middle East Tamur Goudarzi-Pour.
He adds that the overwhelming demand for a year-round route to South Africa’s Mother City has presented a sound business case for expanding Lufthansa’s service to this route, which is a rare case in an economic environment where many European airlines are reviewing the viability of routes and scaling back.
“Lufthansa is proud to offer Cape Town and the [Western Cape] province a direct route to Europe through our internationally rated Frankfurt hub, which connects travellers to over 200 destinations globally,” says Goudarzi-Pour.
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