Lufthansa, the German Airline, is bullish on the potential of the Asian market which has recorded a 7 per cent growth in revenues last year.
India, the airline’s third largest market in Asia-Pacific, contributed 13.2 per cent of its total revenues last year in the region.
Deputy chairman of the Lufthansa executive board and CEO, passenger airlines, Wolfgang Mayrhuber said fresh bilateral talks would be held between the governments of India and Germany in the first half of this year, which it hoped would help the airline to increase its frequencies.
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About introducing new flights, Lufthansa general manager (South Asia) Harald Hahn said the airline was interested in increasing its frequencies to Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, besides starting new flights to Hyderabad.
Lufthansa presently offers 20 weekly flights to New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai.
This would be increased to 23 flights from April 2003 with the introduction of three additional flights to Chennai.
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additional service to Hyderabad, sounds interesting...
LH´s CEO Jürgen Weber once mentioned that if there´s one route in which they´d love to operate the A380 already today, that would be on FRA-DEL.
so what do you think? if talks are succesful, could this possibly include services from MUC considering it´s LH´s ever-expanding 2nd hub?
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daniel
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Swissgabe From Switzerland, joined Jan 2000, 5265 posts, RR: 37 Reply 2, posted (10 years 3 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 2376 times:
Well, I think the LH flights to BLR are very important for them and the yield has to be pretty good on the flights. If I'm not mistaken LH is the only European carrier flying into BLR, isn't it?
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B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (10 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 2291 times:
LH will never inaugurate MUC-India flights as long as the current bilateral is in place. There is simply too much connecting traffic that must be routed through FRA for optimal efficiency and insufficient frequencies to deal with the demand.
United777 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1648 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (10 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 2244 times:
What aircraft would they fly to HYD with? I don't think HYD could handle there A343's yet.
Gigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88 Reply 6, posted (10 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 2263 times:
United777 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1648 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (10 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 2224 times:
BA flies to Delhi daily with a B744. I think they are trying to add flights to India too.
Gigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88 Reply 10, posted (10 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 2256 times:
VS recently figured out a way to increase their Indian frequencies.
I guess I should have believed this right off - England is like a tiny little island India in many ways. I just didn't realize the rest of Europe was as well.
B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (10 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 2228 times:
VS recently figured out a way to increase their Indian frequencies
Crying and whining and making noise for 3 years earned them the rights to operate an extra flight for 6 weeks!
Remember, VS has NO rights to India. Their rights are courtesy of Air India loaning them unused frequencies that cannot be utilized by AI because LHR refuses to release slots.
Gigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88 Reply 12, posted (10 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days ago) and read 2230 times:
Sir Richard makes a good whiner.
At the end of this 6 weeks, is there supposed to be some sort of move towards a new bilateral?
B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 13, posted (10 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days ago) and read 2236 times:
At the end of this 6 weeks, is there supposed to be some sort of move towards a new bilateral?
Nope. At the end of the 6 weeks, VS will be told in all probability that they can now take a hike which will spark off another round of whining and threats and generally juvenile behavior on both sides.
Gigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88 Reply 14, posted (10 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days ago) and read 2228 times:
Hardly seems worthwhile at all.
Is the India-Europe market drastically underserved presently? Wouldn't it behoove the Indian government to allow more frequencies?
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