Lufthansa flight from Debrecen to Germany resumed

Source: Debrecen Airport

Lufthansa’s flight between Munich and Debrecen has resumed: the passengers of the first flight in two years were welcomed by the airline, the airport and the city of Debrecen on Sunday.

According to airportal.hu, Gábor Antal, the representative of the German Lufthansa Group in Hungary, recalled: from 2016, Lufthansa operated three flights a week between Munich and Debrecen, and after a two-year forced break due to the coronavirus epidemic, they are now operating four flights a week.

The flights will operate on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

Interestingly, he said that while in 2019, the last full year before the epidemic, 60 percent of passengers were business travelers and 40 percent were individual travelers, the reverse is true for the current bookings. Their general experience is that the return of companies is more delayed,” he said.

Lufthansa is planning for the long term in Debrecen, Gábor Antal told MTI, indicating that

the BMW Group’s executives will arrive in Debrecen this week for the groundbreaking ceremony of the BMW car factory in Debrecen on a Lufthansa flight.

Source: Debrecen Airport

Ádám Kovács, the head of the town hall’s cabinet, recalled that since 2016, when Lufthansa launched its Debrecen-Munich flight, a number of German companies have settled in the city, providing jobs for more than a thousand people.

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The airport, which is now 51 percent owned by the Hungarian state, is being continuously developed, with plans to reach one million passengers a year by 2025,

Ádám Kovács told MTI.

János Vajda, managing director of Debrecen International Airport Kft., which operates the airport, said that the number of flights has been steadily increasing this year.

The Wizz Air airline already operates flights to nine cities from Debrecen.

In addition to flights to Eindhoven, Paris, London, Brussels and Tel Aviv, Wizz Air flights to Larnaca, Mallorca, Corfu and Burgas will be operated from Debrecen in the summer. Charter flights to Antalya and Zakynthos holiday resorts will start in June, the former being so popular that four flights a week will be launched instead of the planned three,” the director said.

As we wrote last week, on 26 May 2022, the Hungarian government published important information on taxation. Airlines that have not been paying extra in the past are now on the government’s list of extra levies. This is a surprise as the sector is only just beginning to recover from the shock of the coronavirus outbreak. Read more details HERE.