First Lufthansa flights to Rzeszów in Poland

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Direct from Frankfurt to southeastern Poland from summer 2009

Lufthansa is extending its route network in Poland by adding Rzeszów to its summer timetable 2009. From 27 April 2009, the Lufthansa CityLine regional airline subsidiary will begin operating five flights weekly on the Frankfurt-Rzeszów route with a Bombardier CRJ700.

Rzeszów is an important economic and cultural centre in southeastern Poland. Located in the Carpathian foothills, and near the border with Ukraine and Slovakia, the City has become a major communication hub, attracting a number of companies and investors to set up bases there. Aside from the aviation industry, the City is home to automotive components and mechanical engineering firms. Alongside its business importance, Rzeszów is a major academical centre. It hosts diverse universities providing education to a current 70,000 students, principally in aviation studies and electrical engineering.

“The new flights to Rzeszów will expand Lufthansa’s broad array of services in Poland. With their addition to the network, we will be offering our customers fast and convenient connections to eight Polish cities in different regions,” said Karl-Ulrich Garnadt, Executive Vice President Services and Human Resources Lufthansa Passenger Airlines. “Only a few months ago, Lufthansa augmented the existing connection ex Munich to Poznan by laying on flights there from Frankfurt as well, giving Lufthansa passengers a choice of more than 200 weekly connections to Germany’s neighbouring country.

The Frankfurt to Rzeszów round-trip is available at a price as low as 99 euros. The fare in Economy includes all taxes, fees and the Lufthansa ticket charge of 10 euros, if booked online at www.lufthansa.com. Miles & More members can collect miles on the flights. Information can be obtained and flight reservations made on our website, at the Lufthansa Call Center on phone 0180 – LUFTHANSA (0180 5 83 84 26), Lufthansa travel agency partners or Lufthansa airport ticket counters.

Deutsche Lufthansa AG Corporate Communications 16.02.09

[jan_olieslagers]

Looking up that airport in en.wikipedia, I learned

As of January 2008, it has scheduled international flights to Dublin and London-Stansted, in addition to its domestic connection with Warsaw. On June 2, 2007 LOT Polish Airlines commenced seasonal Boeing 767 service to New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport and Newark's Newark Liberty International Airport.

Now it seems obvious who operates the Dublin & Stansted services, and no surprise about the domestic service either. But a seasonal service to both Newark and JFK is a bit bewildering - what category of pax are targeted? Why two airports near New York but none other in USA? Why seasonal? Airport too snowbound in winter perhaps?