Frankfurt winter timetable: some increased offers

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Frankfurt Airport Winter Timetable 2009/10:Intercontinental and Domestic Flight Offerings Increase
Oman Air and Safi Airways Continue New FRA Services for the Winter Schedule

Featuring 4,275 flight departures per week, the Frankfurt Airport Winter Timetable 2009/10 will go into effect on Sunday, October 25 in tandem with the time change throughout Europe. Although there will be 2.0 percent fewer flights offered compared to last year's winter timetable, the number of available seats will remain almost unchanged at 655,000 per week – down only 0.3 percent year-on-year. The number of intercontinental and domestic flight offerings is particularly positive this winter season. There will be a 2.5 percent jump in intercontinental departures from Frankfurt (FRA) as well as a 4.9 percent rise in domestic connections compared to last year's winter schedule.

In early November 2009 Continental Airlines will inaugurate a new daily nonstop service between Houston (IAH) and Frankfurt – giving FRA two flights per day to the Texas metropolis. Since September 2009 Oman Airlines has been flying four times per week nonstop to Muscat (MCT), the capital of the Sultanate of Oman on the Persian Gulf. The Frankfurt–Kabul (KBL) service inaugurated this past June by the new FRA entrant Safi Airways of Afghanistan will be continued for the winter season, too. On the African continent, services to Nigeria will expand significantly. Lufthansa will be providing two connections from FRA to Nigeria every day, one to the capital city of Abuja (ABV) and one to the metropolis of Lagos (LOS). New African destinations this winter include Port Harcourt, also in Nigeria, and Libreville (LBV) in Gabon, which was already added to Lufthansa's FRA route network in mid-July. U.S. destinations no longer being served from FRA include Delta's Cincinnati (CVG) connection (dropped in September) and Lufthansa's service to Portland (PDX).

In European traffic, Air Baltic has been flying from FRA to the Lithuanian capital of Riga (RIX) on the Baltic Sea since September 2009. Introduced in the summer, Luthansa's new service to Poznan (POZ) in west central Poland will also continue to be offered daily in the winter timetable. Likewise, the southeastern Polish city of Rzeszow (RZE) will be served with five connections per week. The Turkish airline Pegasus will be adding the Frankfurt–Istanbul Sabiha Gökcen Airport (SAW) route to its winter schedule. With the deletion of its Frankfurt–Barcelona (BCN) route, Spain's Clickair will stop serving FRA. Because Olympic Airways is no longer active in the German market, its daily service to Athens (ATH) will be dropped. However, Lufthansa and Aegean Airlines will continue to offer numerous daily flights to the Greek capital.

Two "race routes" in the domestic market will see expanded service from Frankfurt this winter: Air Berlin will be serving a brand new connection to Hamburg, 31 times weekly; Lufthansa will increase its flights to Hamburg to 100 per week and to Berlin to 105 per week. Since July of this year, Lufthansa has not been flying the FRA–Paderborn route.

Fraport press release 20 October 2009

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Air Baltic has been flying from FRA to the Lithuanian capital of Riga (RIX) on the Baltic Sea since September 2009

Let me remember you(who ever wrote this article) that Lithuanian capital is Vilnius, not Riga. Riga is capital of Latvia and airBaltic is flying from there to FRA.

Thank you!

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Well, I thought that the press releases from a reputable company like Fraport would have been checked for accuracy before being released. I was wrong!