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Hopes were high that travel this year would again be possible without restrictions. But despite the vaccination, the world is currently in the second Corona winter. Vaccination residues, vaccination breakthroughs and the rapidly expanding Omikron variant make a carefree vacation impossible. And so airlines and airports are now placing their hopes in the coming year.
Lufthansa has new long-term destinations in its program for 2022
Lufthansa is launching several new long-term destinations in the coming summer. From March 27, 2022, the airline will be flying non-stop to Rio de Janeiro and San Diego in California for the first time from Munich. Bangkok will be served directly again. Eurowings Discover, a newly founded subsidiary of Lufthansa, will take off from Munich to Punta Cana, Cancun and Las Vegas.
Lufthansa will be flying from Frankfurt to St. Louis in Missouri in summer 2022. Eurowings Discover also serves Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Fort Myers, Anchorage, Halifax and Calgary. Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Panama City and Malé in the Maldives are also new.
Eurowings will be launching over 140 travel destinations in 2022
And also in the middle distance there is a lot going on in the coming year. Starting in the summer, Eurowings will be offering flights from Hamburg to Alicante, Bilbao, Gothenburg, Lisbon, Porto and Verona for the first time. From Stuttgart, Eurowings will in future also fly to the destinations Adana, Kütahya-Zafer, Porto, Preveza, Tbilisi, Tivat and Tunis. The Romanian Timisoara is back in the flight plan there.
From Düsseldorf, the destinations Bergamo and Funchal are now included in the low-cost airline’s summer flight schedule 2022. In addition, Eurowings will again be flying to the Slovak city of Kosice and Mostar in Bosnia-Herzigovina. From Cologne / Bonn, travelers with the airline can also travel to the Georgian capital Tbilisi in the summer. According to Eurowings, with 140 destinations in the coming year, it has more destinations in its program than ever before.
In the future, Condor will also fly from Nuremberg and Friedrichshafen
The airlines Easyjet and Condor will also increase in the coming year. While Easyjet is only adding one new connection to its route network and will also be flying to the popular Mediterranean island of Mallorca from Cologne / Bonn from May 22, 2022, several changes are pending at Condor.
In addition to the airports in Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Berlin and Zurich, the airline will also count Nuremberg, Friedrichshafen and Vienna among its departure airports in the future. In addition, Condor will also fly to Nice, Malaga and Athens from Düsseldorf in 2022. Nice can also be reached from Frankfurt in the coming year, travelers can book a flight to Athens in the coming year not only from Düsseldorf but also from Leipzig.
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There is also news from Ryanair. The Irish low-cost airline will fly from Nuremberg to Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cagliari in Sardinia, Chania in Greece, Dublin, Faro, Girona in northeastern Spain, Ibiza, Lviv in Ukraine, Madeira, Sofia, Tallinn, Valencia and Venice for the first time in 2022 . Also new are the flights from Bremen to Vienna, from Cologne / Bonn to Rome and from Memmingen to Santiago.
ADV expects 100 million more passengers in 2022
A message from the airport association ADV gives reason to be optimistic that the investments made by the airlines will pay off. Compared to 2021, the association expects 100 million more passengers for the coming year and further significant growth in freight.
The pandemic situation will limit demand in the coming winter months, said ADV CEO Ralph Beisel on Tuesday. But they are convinced that the demand from private and business travelers will pick up sharply as soon as travel restrictions fall.
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