Lufthansa’s New Leisure Airline Eurowings Discover Launches Inaugural Flight to Africa

Eurowings Discover is preparing to launch its first route between Frankfurt and Mombasa and then Zanzibar on Saturday, reports Air Journal. These flights will be operated on Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The plane will take off from its Frankfurt base on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 7:35 pm to arrive the next day at 5:10 am in Mombasa-Moi, then at 7:00 am in Zanzibar-Abeid Amani Karume at 7:00 am, it is specified. As for the return flights, they leave Tanzania on Thursdays and Sundays at 8:50 am then Kenya at 11:00 am to land at 6:40 pm. The new leisure airline of the Lufthansa group has also integrated seven other long-haul destinations into its summer and winter program.

In August, Eurowings Discover will launch three weekly rotations to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, and five to Windhoek in Namibia. The new routes to Las Vegas in the United States and to Mauritius (3 flights per week in both cases) will be inaugurated in October. The company plans to add Bridgetown (Barbados), Montego Bay (Jamaica) and Varadero (Cuba) to its winter 2021 flight program, with three weekly frequencies each. In November, it will launch its first medium-haul routes, "to the Canary Islands, Egypt and [Morocco]".

"The timing could not be better. People can finally travel again and we are all ready to fly them to the most beautiful destinations in the world. [...] We have built an airline in just one year - an ambitious goal that we have achieved with the great support of the entire Lufthansa group, a motivated team and in close cooperation with the German Federal Aviation Authority," said Wolfgang Raebiger, CEO of Eurowings Discover. "We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all those involved."