Lufthansa is launching a new connection from Gdańsk

Press release

The Gdańsk-Frankfurt route will be served by Lufthansa seven times a week (from Monday to Sunday: arrival from FRA at 17.50, departure from GDN at 18.10) using CRJ 700 planes, each taking up to 70 passengers on board. The Frankfurt connection is the second route after Munich (thirteen times a week) operated by the German Airline Lufthansa from Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport.

“From Frankfurt, it will be possible to fly Lufthansa to 169 destination cities in 75 countries. The 27-percent increase in the number of passengers in 2007 ranks us as the most dynamically developing traditional carrier in Poland. We hope that the new connection from Gdańsk to Frankfurt will not only have a positive impact on our results, but will also contribute to the development of the region of Northern Poland,” commented Maria Kowalewska, General Manager of Lufthansa in Poland.

“In recent years, the number of passengers served and new connections from Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport have been growing at an exceptionally dynamic pace. I must add that this is largely due to the increasing share of low-cost airlines in the airline market. However, we are all the happier that traditional airlines are also strengthening their position in Gdańsk by raising both the number and frequency of connections,” stated Włodzimierz Machczyński, President of the Management Board of Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport.

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Presently, there are five traditional and five low-cost carriers operating from Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport, offering a total of 32 routes to 9 countries. In the near future, apart from the Frankfurt connection by Lufthansa, the connection network of Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport will gain as many as twelve new routes (Coventry, Goteborg, Bournemouth, Kraków, Oslo, East Midlands, Cardiff, 2xBarcelona-Girona, Amsterdam, Manchester, Turku), and the number of countries served will increase by another two – Spain and Holland.