Lufthansa’s New Leisure Airline Eurowings Discover to Launch with African and Caribbean Routes

Eurowings Discover. This is the new leisure airline of the Lufthansa Group that will be launched in July, reports Avi Trader. Its inaugural flight will take place on July 24 from its Frankfurt-am-Main base to Mombasa, followed by another flight to Zanzibar. August will be a busy month for the new airline. In addition to two weekly frequencies to Mombasa/Zanzibar, there will also be three weekly flights to Punta Cana and five weekly flights to Windhoek. In October, Eurowings Discover will serve Las Vegas and Mauritius three times a week.

The new airline will integrate Bridgetown, Montego Bay and Varadero (three weekly frequencies each) into its 2021 winter program. Other destinations will be served starting in November: short and medium-haul flights will be operated to the Canary Islands, Egypt and Morocco.

Eurowings Discover will have 11 aircraft this year. It will increase its fleet to 21 by June 2022 (ten Airbus A320 and 11 Airbus A330). All the aircraft come from the Lufthansa Group fleet.