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Press release
- 26.03.2003
- New destinations for the sunny months of the year
Riga, Nice, Vienna, Accra, Budapest: flying from Hamburg is set to become even more attractive this summer. City trips, holidays and business travel – Hamburg Airport has extended the number of direct services to domestic and international airports. A total of 62 airlines offer services to 100 destinations. The new summer timetable is valid from 30th March to 28th October 2003.
Hamburg Airport continues to build its position as the leading gateway to Eastern Europe. Starting on 2nd April, airBaltic will be offering four weekly flights to Riga, the capital of Lettland. The carrier's Fokker 50 leaves on Mondays and Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m., and on Fridays and Sundays at 8:00 p.m.
Another new addition to the timetable is the dba service to Nice. The low-cost carrier will be offering a daily service to the stylish Mediterranean city on the Cote d`Azur, with a flight time of just under two hours. The service departs Monday to Friday at 10:05 a.m., Saturday at 11:50 a.m. and Sunday at 7:20 a.m. dba also operates a service to Munich, with flights leaving almost every hour daily.
In February Air Berlin introduced a shuttle service to Vienna, the Austrian capital. The flight departs daily at 7:30 p.m.; the flight time of only ninety minutes brings the Prater and the Spanish Riding School within immediate grasping distance. The Air Berlin flight to London-Stansted takes only an hour and twenty minutes. The Berlin-based low-cost carrier flies to the pulsating British metropolis twice daily: at 6:55 a.m. (except Saturdays) and at 7:35 p.m. Another service is destined to become popular with Mallorca fans: Air Berlin has added a further daily direct service to Palma de Mallorca. The flight to 'Germany's favourite island' takes only two and a half hours.
Malev Hungarian Airlines flies twice daily to Budapest. The airline's inexpensive off-peak services are a great way of getting to other Eastern European destinations via Budapest, the region's key hub. Flights leave from Hamburg Airport every day (except Mondays) at 10:05 a.m. and 7:55 p.m. Flight time is one hour and forty minutes.
For all those travellers setting off in search of white beaches, pristine tropical forests and fascinating nature reserves Ghana Airways offers a non-stop service to Accra. The Ghanese national airline flies to the West African capital every Tuesday; the carrier's DC 10 leaves Hamburg at 11:00 a.m. and arrives in Accra six and a half hours later. The return flight stops over in Düsseldorf.
Fans of the Cologne Cathedral and Kölsch – the local beer – can fly Hapag Lloyd Express up to four times a day to Cologne. Flights depart at 8:10 a.m. (except Sundays), 11:35 a.m. (only Sundays), 5:30 p.m. (daily) and 8:25 p.m. (except Saturdays). A mere hour later passengers hear "Ready for landing" as the aircraft touches down in the capital of Germany's carnival scene.
The popular scheduled services to the exhibition city Leipzig and the capital of Saxony, Dresden, remain unaltered. Cirrus Airlines will be operating the Lufthansa flights previously operated by Augsburg Airways. Cirrus also flies to Mannheim and Saarbrücken from Hamburg.
A further highlight in the new Summer 2003 timetable is a daily direct service to the Catalan capital, Barcelona, operated by Lufthansa CityLine. The blue crane lands in the world heritage city and home of Antonio Gaudi's fascinating buildings just under two and a half hours after leaving Hamburg. Flights leave Mondays to Sundays at 2:15 p.m.