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Volotea's arrival on the Strasbourg-Munich route is part of a two-year public service delegation contract. It will start operating on 9 April, with two flights a week on Mondays and Thursdays using Airbus A320s. Departure from Strasbourg is at 8.40am on Monday...

Frankfurt airport is still very saturated. Lufthansa is taking this situation into account, and is continuing to strengthen its Munich hub. Munich also offers a more attractive infrastructure for transfer passengers. On departure from the Bavarian capital, Lufthansa is offering the following frequency increases:...

The Lufthansa group is ramping up its subsidiary Lufthansa City Airlines from the Munich hub. The airline is marketed under the IATA code VL. If it weren't for the 'City' logo next to the Lufthansa logo on the aircraft's body, the product is in fact not very different from the 'classic' Lufthansa product for...

With more than 320 establishments in Germany, Accor will be strengthening its budget offering with several hotels in the ibis family of brands, perfectly positioned to cater for business travellers. Among the openings planned for 2025 is an ibis and ibis budget combo near Berlin-Brandenburg airport, marking the first time the French group has set up operations...

A château near Berlin and a listed residence not far from Mainz, as well as a conference hotel near Munich: Châteauform' is stepping up the roll-out of its offer in Germany, with three establishments planned over the next two years. This expansion is based on the recipe tried and tested in France: the transformation...

Opened for the Munich Olympic Games in 1972, the Hilton Munich Park hotel will soon be taking a long break after some fifty years in business. Only to come back even stronger, following a four-year renovation programme scheduled to reopen in 2029. The rejuvenation of this major business hotel with...

Lufthansa is continuing to improve the connectivity of its Bavarian hub because of the greater flight capacity at Munich and probably because terminal 2, dedicated to Lufthansa and Star Alliance flights, offers greater comfort than Frankfurt. The German carrier, which has just inaugurated three weekly flights from Munich to...

German carrier Lufthansa will be boosting its services to the United States from its two hubs in Frankfurt and Munich for the 2024 summer season. The carrier will be offering three new routes. From Frankfurt, the airline will launch services to Minneapolis/St Paul and Raleigh-Durham. These two destinations will each be served with five weekly frequencies. The flights...

While Munich awaits the opening of a Rosewood luxury hotel at the end of the month, the Bavarian capital has also recently welcomed a new business hotel. And not the least: the Munich Marriott City West, a 398-room powerhouse with a huge MICE area of almost 2,000 square metres.

The Rosewood luxury group was already comfortably installed in several major European cities, including Place de la Concorde in Paris, the Hôtel de Crillon, Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, Villa Magna, and High Holborn Street in central London. Since last year, the...

The Radisson group is adding to the portfolio of its Radisson Individuals collection of independent hotels, particularly in France. After welcoming a new member near the capital, the YAC Paris Clichy, the brand is heading for Normandy with a boutique hotel in Honfleur, Les Maisons de Léa. Located in the heart of...

Lufthansa will be launching new Airbus A380 destinations from Munich next winter. From 5 October, the airline will once again operate daily services to Los Angeles with the giant aircraft. This will be followed on 28 October by the entry into service of an Airbus A380 to Bangkok. The aircraft will increase the number of seats available by almost...

There was already Lufthansa, and there was also Eurowings. And now a third German airline, a subsidiary of the group, is taking shape at Munich airport: City Airlines. The project, launched in May 2022, includes 40 Airbus A319 aircraft for this airline, which will operate point-to-point services from the capital...

A rather favourable year. This is how the management of Munich airport sees the results for the hub in 2022. The Bavarian capital's airport, the second largest hub for German airline Lufthansa, has seen its traffic jump by 153.2%. That's 19 million more passengers between 2021 and...

Lufthansa will continue to densify its network in summer 2023 by adding seven destinations in Europe from its Frankfurt and Munich hubs. In total, the German airline will offer more than 205 destinations worldwide, almost as many as before the coronavirus pandemic. With 5,200 weekly frequencies, the number of routes from...

Lufthansa is once again pounding its fists on the issue of services to Munich airport. The German hub, the country's second busiest with 12.5 million passengers in 2021 (47.9 million in 2019), has a mediocre rail network. A handful of bus routes and two S-Bahn (suburban railway) lines link...

No fewer than 800 flights were cancelled on Friday by Lufthansa, whose operations are paralysed by a strike initiated by the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots' union. In other words, almost all of the airline's operations to and from its Frankfurt and Munich hubs have ground to a halt. A total of 130,000...

And that's two: after Lilly, the Ruby Group has just opened a second address in Munich, called Rosi. Strategically located for business travellers, just a stone's throw from the main railway station and just 45 minutes from the airport, the new hotel has 101 rooms. The Ruby Rosi hotel is crowned by a rooftop terrace,...

With the lifting of many travel restrictions linked to the pandemic, airlines are returning to Munich airport this spring. For the IATA summer season, they will once again be offering more routes and connections between Europe and the rest of the world. "We are seeing a clear increase in demand at the moment...

Amelia makes no secret of the clientele targeted by the new routes about to be added to its catalogue. Business customers, and more specifically parliamentarians and diplomats, who converge on Strasbourg and its European institutions. "Vital for members of parliament and staff at sessions of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, or for Europeans in correspondence...