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New Summer Schedule for
Long-Haul Destinations to Germany

Non-stop connections to Boston, San Francisco, New York (JFK) Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta and Toronto.

The worldwide slump in air traffic, which also strongly impacted passenger figures at Munich Airport over the last several months, is apparently over. An upward trend in traffic figures at Munich Airport is already in evidence as the new summer timetable period approaches.

Deutsche Lufthansa has added appealing new, long-haul connections in time for the upcoming summer schedule. May 1 will mark the launch of the non-stop service to Boston (six flights each per week). The airline is also resumed its daily non-stop flights to San Francisco and to New York-JFK, which were suspended following the September 11 terrorist attacks.  Non-stop daily service to Chicago remained unchanged, bringing the total number of U.S. cities with daily non-stop connections serviced by Lufthansa to four.

U.S. Airways reinstated non-stop daily service to Philadelphia, after the schedule was reduced following September 11.  United Airlines continues non-stop daily service to Washington, D.C. and Delta Airlines continues non-stop daily service to Atlanta.  From April 8-June 2, Air Canada will re-launch its non-stop Toronto connection (5 times weekly), and will move to daily non-stop service June 3.

In total, the 2002 summer schedule includes 55 weekly non-stop connections from North America to the Munich International Airport.  So far, airlines have scheduled nearly 213,000 take-offs and landings in Munich for the period between March 31 and October 26, 2002. This represents an average of 7,100 flights per week, or a jump of approximately 100 flights over the previous year's level.  Based on slots booked so far, the 2002 summer schedule will have 92 airlines providing scheduled services to 209 destinations in 59 countries from Munich International Airport, the Modern Gateway to Romantic Europe.

For more information call: 615-843-1470
www.frankentourismus.de

www.visits-to-germany.com

www.munich-airport.de

Edited by Dave Shultz

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