Lufthansa withdaw the Boeing 737 from service - final flight to Birmingham on Saturday 29 October 2016

Boeing 737 D-ABEK wears a special "Fanhansa" colour scheme

Lufthansa come to the end of an era this weekend when they plan

to withdraw their final 6 Boeing 737-300s from service 

The final Lufthansa Boeing 737-300 flight into Frankfurt is planned

for the evening of Saturday 29 October 2016 and we now have just

two more Boeing 737 flights planned into Birmingham -

FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER 2016

1700/1745 LH956/957 733 from/to Frankfurt
- planned aircraft allocation - Lufthansa

SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER 2016
   
1235/1320 LH954/955 733 from/to Frankfurt
- final planned Boeing 737 flight to BHX - Lufthansa

Lufthansa - who are using the hash tag #ThankYou737 to mark the

retirement - have operated the Boeing 737 - -100/200/300/400/500 -

since 1968 when they were the first operator of the type

 #ThankYou737

Friday 28 October 2016

Take off to Berlin with Lufthansa at the Birmingham Bullring this weekend

Lufthansa will be celebrating the launch of a new direct daily
service from Birmingham to Berlin on Sunday 3 June 2012,
by giving shoppers in the Birmingham Bullring the chance to
experience some real "in-flight entertainment" and win top
prizes this weekend
.
Shoppers will be invited to relax in special Lufthansa airline
seats, recreating an authentic in-flight experience. During
"the flight", pretend passengers can win return tickets from
Birmingham to Berlin, plus much more
.
The "take off and win" activity follows Lufthansa’s
announcement to launch direct daily flights from
Birmingham Airport to Berlin, from just £39 one way,
including taxes and charges. The new service
will mean Berlin is now less than two hours away
.
Jo Lloyd, Head of Brand at Birmingham Airport, said:
"Shoppers in the Bullring will be able to experience
jetting off with Lufthansa in this novel promotion of
the new Berlin route"
.
"This latest addition to our summer flight schedule is great
news for Birmingham Airport, giving passengers even more
choice. Berlin is a top European city and this new route will
mean flying there has never been quicker and easier"
.
Dirk Schreier, Marketing & Pricing Manager, UK & Ireland
for Lufthansa, said: "We hope the people of Birmingham enjoy
taking part in this fun activity, where they can experience for
themselves what it’s like to fly with Lufthansa and hopefully
win some great prizes along the way"
.
"The decision to launch this new service to Berlin follows a
record breaking year for Lufthansa, who carried the highest
number of passengers to and from Birmingham
in the airline’s history"
.
The "take off and win" activity will take place between
Thursday 24 and Sunday 27 May 2012, on the ground
floor near Selfridges in the Bullring
.
For more information and to book flights, please visit
www.lufthansa.com
.
Friday 25 May 2012

New Lufthansa service to Berlin will now operate from/to Tegal Airport

Lufthansa have confirmed that their new Birmingham to Berlin
service will be starting as planned on Sunday 3 June 2012
despite the news that the opening of the new Berlin
Brandenburg Airport has been delayed
.
The flights will now operate from/to Berlin Tegal Airport
- please see the updated schedule below which applies until
further notice - at this time there is no confirmed date for
the opening of the new Berlin Airport
.

Lufthansa schedule to Berlin from Sunday 3 June 2012

.
1225/1305 LH3420/3421 319 from/to Berlin Tegal

- operates on Saturday

1825/1905 LH3420/3421 319 from/to Berlin Tegal
- operates Monday to Friday + Sunday - from 10 June 2012
1900/1940 LH3420/3421 319 from/to Berlin Tegal
- operates Monday to Friday + Sunday - until 8 June 2012

.

www.lufthansa.com
.

Wednesday 16 May 2012

Lufthansa commence new twice daily service to Hamburg from Birmingham Airport

Lufthansa has teamed up with regional subsidiary Eurowings
and Birmingham Airport to launch a new service to Hamburg
which commenced today, Wednesday 2 May 2012, and which
will operate twice daily on weekdays and once at weekends
.
This service is followed by a new daily Lufthansa flight to
Berlin, which will come into effect in early June, to coincide
with the opening of the new Berlin-Brandenburg Airport,
meaning flying out to Germany has never been easier
.

Christian Schindler, Lufthansa’s General Manager for UK &
Ireland, said: "As well as offering passengers quick and easy
access to many of the main German cities, we continue to
ensure that our flights to and from Birmingham offer the
shortest possible onward connection times to our worldwide
network through our main hubs of Frankfurt and Munich,
as well as our developing mini-hub at Dusseldorf"

.

Martyn Lloyd, Head of Air Service Development at
Birmingham Airport, said: "This addition to our summer
flight schedule is great news for people in Birmingham and
the wider region. By making major European cities such
as Hamburg and Berlin more accessible, it will also benefit
the business community here in the Midlands and
contribute towards helping the UK economy as a whole"

.
For full details about all Lufthansa services, please visit
www.lufthansa.com
.

Lufthansa schedule to Hamburg from Wednesday 2 May 2012
.
0740/0815 LH3450/3451 CR9 from/to Hamburg
- operates Monday to Saturday
1515/1550 LH3452/3453 CR9 from/to Hamburg
- operates Sunday to Friday
.
All flights operated by a Eurowings Canadair CRJ 900

.

Wednesday 2 May 2012

Lufthansa to launch daily service to Berlin Brandenburg from Birmingham Airport!!

Lufthansa have announced that they will be launching

a daily Airbus A319 service from Birmingham Airport
to Berlin on Sunday 3 June 2011 to coincide with the
opening of the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport
.
Announcing the new service Karsten Benz, Lufthansa
Vice President Sales and Services Europe, said: "The
addition of direct flights to Berlin reaffirms the importance
of Birmingham within the Lufthansa network. The opening
of the new Berlin Brandenburg "Willy Brandt" Airport next

year provides new opportunities for Lufthansa to increase
its offering to Birmingham passengers"
.
"We are launching the Birmingham to Berlin service with
our lowest UK entry fare so Birmingham passengers can
fly for as little as £39 one-way and £79 return inclusive of
all taxes and charges"
.
Paul Kehoe, CEO, Birmingham Airport said: "It is fantastic
news that Lufthansa will now operate to Berlin. Lufthansa
has been a partner of the Airport for over 25 years. The

airline has had a particularly strong year at Birmingham,
with passenger numbers increasing significantly. The
relationship between Lufthansa and Birmingham Airport
will continue to grow and the launch of this route will now
complement Lufthansa’s existing routes of Dusseldorf,
Frankfurt and Munich"
.
With more than 8.2 million visitors in 2010, Berlin is one
of Europe’s most popular destinations and the third largest
convention & exhibition city in the world

.

The flight will operate to Berlin Brandenburg Airport daily

from Sunday 3 June 2012 using an Airbus A319 -

.

Flight LH3420 arrives Birmingham at 1920 from Berlin
Flight LH3421 departs Birmingham at 2000 to Berlin

Wednesday 9 November 2011

Lufthansa celebrates 25 years at Birmingham Airport as passenger numbers soar!!

Boeing 737-200's were initially used on the daily Frankfurt service

Lufthansa is celebrating 25 years of flights from Birmingham

today Friday 1st April 2011 by reaching new heights with

passenger figures for early 2011 showing 33.6% growth

compared with the same period last year

.

The figures, for services to Lufthansa’s connecting hubs at

Frankfurt, Munich and Düsseldorf, were released by

Marianne Sammann, Lufthansa’s General Manager in UK,

when she visited Birmingham Airport to join in

the silver anniversary celebrations

.

"This level of increase in passenger numbers has been almost

unheard of in recent years", says Marianne Sammann. "It proves

once again that the majority of air travellers want Lufthansa’s

reliable, full service offering"

.

"On 1st April 1986 Lufthansa came to Birmingham offering

13 flights a week with a daily flight to Frankfurt operated with

a Boeing 737-200 aircraft and a six days a week service to

Düsseldorf using a 28 seat Embraer 120 Brasilia aircraft.

Today we have five times as many flights and

we are using bigger aircraft

.

Recently delivered Embraer 195's are now being used on flights from Munich

"On 1st April 1986 Lufthansa came to Birmingham offering

13 flights a week with a daily flight to Frankfurt operated with

a Boeing 737-200 aircraft and a six days a week service

to Düsseldorf using a 28 seat Embraer 120 Brasilia

aircraft. Today we have five times as many flights and

we are using bigger aircraft

.

"More than half of the passengers flying with Lufthansa

from Birmingham are continuing to take advantage of our

quick and easy onward connections at our hub airports"

.

Lufthansa’s summer timetable for 2011 offers Birmingham

passengers a choice of 65 flights a week (28 to Frankfurt,

19 to Munich and 18 to Düsseldorf) with onward connections

to 211 destinations in 84 countries in the Lufthansa network

and hundreds more available through other airlines within

the Lufthansa Airlines Group (Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines,

bmi, Brussels Airlines and SWISS) as well as other

Star Alliance partner airlines

.

www.lufthansa.co.uk

Friday 1 April 2011

Lufthansa update - CityLine Embraer 190's and Contact Air Fokker 100's to BHX!!

While Lufthansa (LH) aircraft allocations are normally only

planned about two weeks in advance there are a couple of

significant changes coming later in the summer/year -
.
+ From Saturday 28 August 2010 the first inbound Frankfurt
service on Saturday and Sunday (only!) which is currently

operated by an Avro RJ85 will again become a CityLine

Embraer 190 operation until the end of the summer schedules
.

+ From Monday 1 November 2010 the morning Dusseldorf

service will be operated by a Contact Air Fokker 100 (in

place of the Eurowings CR7/CR9) The other Dusseldorf

flights will continue to be operated by Eurowings

.

All flight information is subject to change!!

.

Thursday 1 July 2010

Lufthansa to use new Embraer 190's to BHX!!

Lufthansa (LH) will be using the new Embraer 190's of regional
subsidiary Cityline on their morning service from Frankfurt
to BHX effective from Monday 1 February 2010

.

The E90's will operate flight LH 4900 - arrive 0905 - and
flight LH 4901 - depart 0945 - daily until 27 March 2010

.

Friday 29 January 2010

December 2008 schedule changes at BHX

The start of December 2008 sees a number of schedule
changes at Birmingham Airport -
.
+ City Airline - has now suspended their morning service
from Gothenburg - it is currently planned to resume at the
start of the summer 2009 schedules
.
+ Eurowings/Lufthansa have reverted to a Canadair
CRJ 200 operation on their 4 times daily service from

Dusseldorf - it is currently planned to revert back to a
Canadair CRj 700 in early January 2009 - TBC!
.
+ Lufthansa will be making regular use of Canadair CRJ 900's
on their Munich service in the run up to Christmas

.
Later in the month sees the return of easyJet and the
start of the new Turkish Airlines service to Istanbul
- more information on these and other schedule changes
over Christmas and the New Year in due course

.

1 December 2008

September 2008 schedule changes at BHX

FedEx are increasing their feeder services to Paris CDG

The start of September 2008 sees a number of schedule
changes at Birmingham Airport -
.

+ easyJet - Geneva service reduces to three times weekly
overthe next few weeks

.

+ FedEx - a second ATR 42 feeder service to their hub at
Paris CDG startson Monday 1 September 2008

.

+ flybe - additional Embraer 195 is based from Tuesday,
2 September 2008 - services to Milan Malpensa,
Paris CDG and Dusseldorf upgraded

.

+ Lufthansa - the Hamburg service has now ceased
- from Monday 1 September 2008 Dusseldorf become
4 times daily Canadair CRJ 700 service

.

+ Norwegian - the service from Warsaw has now ceased

.

+ SkyEurope will be ceasing their Bratislava service - the last
flight is planned to operate on Sunday 28 September 2008

.

Monday 1 September 2008

Lufthansa to upgrade Birmingham to Dusseldorf and drop Hamburg service

Lufthansa will be upgrading their four times daily Birmingham
to Dusseldorf service to a Canadair RJ700 operation with effect

from Monday 1 September 2008

.

Their new Hamburg service, which only started on Monday

5 May 2008, will however cease on Saturday 30 August 2008

.

The updated Dusseldorf schedule effective from 1 September

2008 is setout below:

.
DUSSELDORF SCHEDULE FROM MONDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2008
.
0705/0740 LH4930/4931 CR7 from/to Dusseldorf
- operates on Monday to Saturday
1055/1130 LH4932/4933 CR7 from/to Dusseldorf
- operates on Monday to Friday
1455/1530 LH4934/4935 CR7 from/to Dusseldorf
- operates Monday to Friday
1845/1920 LH4936/4937 CR7 from/to Dusseldorf
- operates Monday to Friday + Sunday
.

Monday 11 August 2008

Lufthansa launch new service to Hamburg

Lufthansa’s new service between Birmingham and Hamburg
got off to a flying start with a party atmosphere welcoming
passengers as the check-in desks opened on Monday 5 May 2008

.

Marc Watkins, Birmingham International Airport, Kate Tranter
- Lufthansa, Mrs Jennifer Dienst and Claudia Cain - Lufthansa
celebrated the start of this new route
.
Mrs Jennifer Dienst was one of the lucky passengers on the
inaugural flight and was presented with champagne and flight
tickets for anywhere on the Lufthansa network from Birmingham
.

Peter Vella, Business Development Director said: "This new route

to Hamburg extends Lufthansa’s portfolio, which has operated from
Birmingham for over 20 years and complements its existing routes

to Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich"

.

LUFTHANSA schedule from/to Hamburg
- from Monday 5 May 2008

.
1100/1130 LH4928/4929 CR2 from/to Hamburg
- operates Monday to Saturday
.

Tuesday 6 May 2008