Only 2 weeks after starting flights, Hapag Llyod Express has given details about their new Summer 2003 flights. The new flights are as follows :
Cologne/Bonn to:
Manchester (Twice Daily)
Rome Ciampino (Twice Daily)
Marseille (Daily)
Madrid (Daily)
Valencia (Daily)
Reus/Barcelona (Costa Dorada)(Daily)
These will join the existing routes of Cologne/Bonn to:
London Luton
Hamburg
Berlin Tegel
Milan Bergamo
Naples
Pisa/Florence
Venice
Frequencies will increase with Venice going from 1 a day to 2 flights a day while Naples will receive 2 extra flights at the weekend. 3 more 737-700’s will join the Cologne/Bonn based fleet making the total fleet of 7 airplanes.
Hannover will become the second base with new Daily flights to:
Rome Ciampino
Venice
Nice
There will be 1 737 – 700 based at Hannover. This makes the total fleet of Hapag Llyod Express of 8 aircraft.
I’m glad they are expanding so soon – must be doing well. It’s also good to see that they are not competiting directly with Germanwings by operating to different airports like Germanwings uses Milan Malpensa, Hapag Llyod Express uses Milan Bergamo, Germanwings use Stansted, Hapag Llyod Express use Luton etc. This also happens with the routes of Rome and Barcelona. However they do both compete from Cologne/Boon to Madrid and Berlin Tegel – Is there enough demand for all those flights on those routes?
Regards
dan777
By: EGNM - 29th December 2002 at 23:06
RE: Hapag Lloyd Express Expansion
That’ll be nice to get one of those famed Taxis at Manchy :D:D
By: Saab 2000 - 27th December 2002 at 19:07
RE: Hapag Lloyd Express Expansion
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 27-12-02 AT 07:08 PM (GMT)]Repeating what I have said before, it is extraordinary what has happened in Germany in the past year. In 2001 there was no German based low cost airline except for Ryanair at Hahn, however, now at the end of 2002, there are around 4 German low cost airlines operating both domestic and international services, much to Lufthansa’s disgust. Lufthansa, seeing what was happening to the German market, have replied to the increasing popularity of low cost airlines and helped build up GermanWings.
In the next year we shall hopefully see continued growth in the German low cost market as a very traditional orientated aviation country starts to explore the low cost strategy.
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December 27, 2002 at 12:19 pm