Lufthansa Adds New Routes to Chania for Summer 2018

New connections from Europe to the airport of Chania are coming. German aviation company Lufthansa Group saw year-over-year passenger growth to Greece in 2017 of 12 percent and expects a similar increase to the country in 2018. “This reflects the growing demand for popular Greek destinations and the tourism dynamic of Greece,” Lufthansa Group General manager Passenger Sales Greece & Cyprus, Konstantinos Tzevelekos, said on Wednesday.

According to Tzevelekos, for summer 2018, the Group’s network has been enhanced with new routes to and from popular Greek destinations.

Lufthansa Group operates in Greece with five airlines (Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings), has a presence in 20 Greek airports and offers 443 direct flights per week to 17 European destinations.

Austrian Airlines will connect, for the first time Brussels with the airport of Chania

Τhis summer, Lufthansa will launch a new route connecting Santorini to Frankfurtroute and SWISS will launch a Kalamata – Geneva route.

Austrian Airlines will introduce 12 new routes this summer, while Brussels Airlines for the first time will connect Brussels with Corfu, Zakynthos, Chania, Kos, Mykonos, Kalamata and Santorini. Lufthansa Group’s low-cost subsidiary Eurowings this summer will offer 18 new connections from Corfu, Heraklion, Kos and Rhodes to airports in Germany and Austria. Edelweiss, a subsidiary of SWISS, will link Chania and Samos to Zurich this year.

original post by www.gtp.gr