The Lanzarote airport will be connected in winter with 27 international destinations, through 16 "non stop weekly" flights from Air Berlin. The company will open routes to Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Munich, Munster, Nüremberg, Parderborm, Stuttgart and Saarbrücken.
Likewise, there will be direct connections with the Austrian cities of Vienna and Salzburg and with the Swiss city of Zurich. Via Berlin, Air Berlin will also fly from Lanzarote to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo, Budapest and Moscow.
You can also travel on Tuesdays and Saturdays from Lanzarote to Abu Dhabi, via Berlin or Dusseldorf. In that sense, Etihad Airways, Airberlin's strategic partner, offers several weekly connections from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok, the Maldives, Brisbane or Singapore.
All these flights were presented this Monday by the representatives of the German company, in an event held at the Hotel Salinas in Costa Teguise. This event served to present Airberlin's 2012-2013 winter season and also as a farewell to its general manager for the last two decades, Álvaro Middelmann, and a welcome to his successor, Paul Verhagen. The Minister of Tourism, Carmen Steinert, was also present.
The until next January general manager of Airberlin in Spain, Álvaro Middelmann, said goodbye to the Lanzarote tourism sector, predicting a good future for the island and for the company, and asking the European political authorities for more aid and incentives for airlines instead of "punishments and penalties in the form of increased air taxes". Middelmann also recalled that Airberlin is one of the companies "most sensitive to the planet's ecosystem".
The company's operations on the island
Airberlin has transported 187,321 passengers to and from Lanzarote between January and September 2012, which represents 2.41 percent more than in the same period last year, with an occupancy rate of 78.60 percent on its planes.
In this sense, it cannot be ignored that the German market is the third general and the second international market for Lanzarote, and that in 2011 there was a notable growth in this tourism when 311,609 Germans arrived on the island, 46,217 more than in 2010.
"We have more than 311,000 reasons to continue working on improving our positioning and recovering our share in the important German market," Steinert said.
