The former Eastern German Berlin Airport, Berlin-Schoenefeld, has celebrated last week the departure of their 3billion-th passenger…
The former Eastern German Berlin Airport, Berlin-Schoenefeld, has celebrated last week the departure of their 3billion-th passenger. The lucky winner of a Germanwings flight ticket left the Berlin Airport on a Germanwings flight to Stuttgart.
Dr. Joachim Klein, General Manager of Germanwings, handed the surprised winner personally over an additional free flight ticket, when he arrived in the departure hall of Schoenefeld Airport.
In October 2003 Germanwings changed all departures from Berlin-Tegel to Berlin Schoenefeld, the airport which is going to be developed as a new major airport for the Brandenburg Region. Berlin City can easily be reached by the Airport Express within half an hour. The change of the Germanwings had initiated a number of other low cost airlines to change also to Schoenefeld.
“Germanwings has never regretted this decision”, Dr Klein stated. “The market has accepted the airport very well. Within one year more than 470.000 reservations have been made on our routes between Stuttgart and Berlin and Cologne and Berlin. The average seat load factor is around 85%”, he added.
Germanwings has increased flights since the beginning of November this year to three daily flights from Cologne to Berlin as well as three daily flights from Stuttgart to Berlin-Schoenefeld. Therefore travellers from Thessaloniki as well as from Athens can make use of these additional flights through the Germanwings destinations Cologne and Stuttgart at prices starting from 19,- € per route.
Summer timetable from Greece 2005:
12 weekly flights from Thessaloniki to Cologne and Stuttgart.
4 weekly flights from Athens
Summer Flight schedule
From Athens to Cologne
11.15 hrs – 13.50 hrs
daily, except Tue and Sat.
From Cologne to Berlin
16.35 hrs – 17.40 hrs
daily
From Thessaloniki to Stuttgart
14.55 hrs – 16.25 hrs
daily, except Tue and Thur
From Stuttgart to Berlin
19.45 hrs – 20.50 hrs
daily
Tickets from 19,- € per route can be booked at www.germanwings.com , where also attractive bargains for hotels or rent-a-car offices are available. Further information can be provided by the Germanwings Call Center in Athens: Tel 210-9696416 or at designated travel agencies by Plotin S.A..
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