 Mumbai: Lufthansa, for its Indian summer schedule has continued to operate to the seven Indian destinations without cutting capacity and is looking at continuing the same trend for the upcoming winter schedule as well.
Alex Hilgers, Director South Asia, Lufthansa said, “Despite the ongoing economic turmoil faced world over, we have not reduced any capacity on our Indian routes during the summer schedule and for the winter schedule also there are no signs of major changes. As a part of our marketing strategy we will continue to introduce innovative offers for students, special prices for US-bound traffic, family offer etc. to attract Indian travellers to fly on Lufthansa.”
Further strengthening its commitment towards the Indian market, the carrier recently started all Business Class service from Mumbai to Munich. The Mumbai-Munich route offers 44 all Business Class seats on a B737 currently; however, the carrier will change the seat configuration to 56 intercontinental Business Class seats with effect from August 22, 2009. On expanding the all Business Class segment, the carrier intends to study the success rate on the Mumbai - Munich route before introducing other stations for all Business Class service.
Hilgers explained, “The all Business Class service from Pune - Frankfurt is well received among travellers. Ideally, the all Business Class aircraft require minimum 60 per cent load factors to break even on every flight. Currently, there are no other destinations planned for expanding the all Business Class service of Lufthansa.”
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