Lufthansa announced today that it will temporarily reduce service between Frankfurt and Shanghai during the month of August.
Specifically, flight LH732 from Frankfurt and LH733 from Shanghai will not operate between August 1 and August 28. This service is the one flown by the 747-400 aircraft.
The remaining Frankfurt/Shanghai flights, LH728 and LH729 (operated by the A380) are not affected by this announcement.
To meet the demand of fans traveling to and from this year’s Euro 2016 being hosted by France, Austrian has assigned the 777 to fly between Vienna and Paris. Of the 4 daily roundtrips between the cities, the 777 will be assigned specifically to flights OS411 and OS412. OS411 departs Vienna at 7:05a and arrives in Paris at 9:10a. OS412 departs Paris at 10:00 and arrives in Vienna at 12:00p.
Here are the specific dates for the 777 flights:
Daily from Thursday June 16 through Sunday June 19 (OS411/412).
Daily from Tuesday June 21 Through Thursday June 23 (OS 411/412).
This of course assuming that the French ATC workers don’t screw things up by going on Strike as they’ve threatened to do during the Tournament. However, I don’t see them being stupid enough to try that stunt if they wish to have the public’s support for their silly ‘plights’ 🙂
But again, the French ATC’ers have tried to make a career out of striking……
It’s been a busy few days for Eurowings as they begin to update their Winter 2016/17 timetable. First they announce service between Cologne and Havana, now they set their sights on Egypt.
Beginning on November 5, Eurowings will fly between Vienna and Marsa Alam, a popular holiday destination in southeastern Egypt, along the shore of the Red Sea. Wikipedia makes it look great. This new destination fits the Eurowings agenda perfectly as they look to become a Low Cost Carrier option to unique holiday destinations normally not served by Lufthansa mainline service.
The new route will be flown by A321 aircraft and will operate once weekly on Saturdays:
Eurowings EW5910 will depart Vienna at 2:30p, arriving in Marsa Alam (RMF) at 7:40p.
Eurowings EW5911 will depart Marsa Alam at 8:20p, arriving in Vienna at 11:55p.
