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News: Lufthansa and Egypt Air enter a strategic cooperation
Lufthansa will cooperate closely with Egypt Air in future. To mark the start of the partner-ship, Wolfgang Mayrhuber, Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, and Eng. Atef Abd El Hamid, Chairman of Egypt Air, today signed a code-sharing contract.
Lufthansa’s cooperation with Egypt Air will start with the introduction of the winter timetable at the end of 2007. The two airlines will in future offer all flights between Germany and Egypt with joint flight numbers: the code-sharing will be introduced on the services between Frankfurt and Munich to Cairo, as well as those from Frankfurt to Alexandria, are part of the code-sharing agreement. Further code-share services, especially to the tourism centres of Egypt and North Africa, are being planned, following official approval by the air traffic authorities. Egypt Air is also planning to transfer its flight numbers to Lufthansa flights within Germany and Europe as well as to North America.
Egypt is one the most important markets for Lufthansa on the African continent. The airline currently offers its passengers 17 flights per week from Egypt to Germany: 14 times a week there are flights from Cairo to Frankfurt, three times per week from Alexandria to Frankfurt. Egypt Air is keen to improve its access to the German market. In the current summer timetable, the airline increased its operation to Munich to daily flights. More connectivity is reached by the arrival of Egypt Air flights into Terminal 2. Furthermore the airline offers daily flights to Frankfurt, two flights to Düsseldorf and two flights to Berlin. All together, Egypt Air operates 18 flights per week from Egypt to Germany.
“Egypt Air is an ideal partner for us, because with this cooperation we can position ourselves long term in one of the most dynamically growing markets in North Africa. We are thus further extending our worldwide network of routes for our customers”, said Lufthansa chief Mayrhuber at the signing of the agreement.
Egypt Air’s Chairman Hamid also expressed his delight at the cooperation with Lufthansa. He welcomed and hailed the cooperation with Lufthansa, as a pioneering partner with an extensive range of services in the German market: “Our cooperation with Lufthansa represents a strategic alliance which will enhance our European market. This comes as a part of our corporate strategy aimed at forging partnerships with leading airlines in targeted markets. The codeshare between Egypt Air and Lufthansa will certainly lead to the enhancement of the product”, said Egypt Air’s Chairman Abd El Hamid.
The passengers of the two airline companies will benefit from the mutually-coordinated timetables with more flight possibilities and better connections between Germany and Egypt. In addition, participants in the frequent flyer programmes of the two airlines will be able to collect miles on the route networks of Lufthansa and Egypt Air and redeem them with both airlines.
A long flying history links Lufthansa with Egypt: as early as 1959 there were two weekly flights with a Boeing 727 from Cairo via Munich to Frankfurt. In the meantime, Lufthansa is the number one among the European airlines in Egypt.
Egypt Air, which was established in May 1932, will be celebrating its seventy–fifth anniversary this year. It is the leading carrier in the Middle East and Africa. Throughout its 75 years of service and, as a result of continuous investments, Egypt Air has successfully extended its network over the years to reach many capitals and major cities. Egypt Air serves nearly 60 cities in 43 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. It also serves all domestic destinations – more than 566 weekly departures from Cairo – with a modern fleet with an average age of eight years. Egypt Air has also upgraded its passenger's facilities in response to customers’ demands for optimal travel.
- Reference: http://www.lufthansa.com