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
.
Friday 1 April 2011