Eurowings, a Lufthansa subsidiary will start new direct flights in December and will fly its passengers for the first time to Beirut in Lebanon and Erbil in Northern Iraq. The flights expand the offer in the range of “families and homeland visits”, in which the airline already offers numerous flights for example to Greece, Croatia, Algeria or Turkey. Eurowings is leading within this market segment and is increasingly expanding its position with the new flights.
“Visiting families and friends is particularly valuable in times of crisis. People of all nationalities regularly seek closeness and personal exchange with their relatives. We make this possible with attractive non-stop connections to the respective home countries. We are seeing continued stable demand in this segment, even in the last weeks and months of the Corona crisis,” said Jens Bischof, CEO of Eurowings.
From 19 December 2020, Eurowings will be taking its passengers from Berlin to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Flights will take off from Berlin on Tuesdays and Saturdays, followed by a return flight after landing in Beirut.
Starting on 19 December, Eurowings passengers will be flying from Düsseldorf to Erbil in Iraq via a direct connection and to Beirut in Lebanon starting on 22 December. The flights are offered on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
From February 2021, there will also be a direct connection from Stuttgart to Beirut. On Tuesdays, a flight will take off at 10.15 am in Stuttgart and land at 3.00 pm in Beirut. The flight will return on the same day at 4.00 pm with arrival at 7.25 pm.
