A shortage of staff, a shortage of planes, and all this in a period when demand is ramping up. It’s nothing unusual in the airline business these days. One airline feeling the shortages is Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings Discover. It is wet-leasing five aircraft from other airlines this summer to respond to the peak in leisure travel. Wet leasing helps Eurowings Discover get through the busy summer.
in July 2021. While it shares the Eurowings name, Discover is actually a completely different and separate entity within Lufthansa Group. Where Eurowings offers a low-cost product from its Cologne base on predominantly routes within Europe and some long-haul routes, Discover is specifically targeting the leisure market. For this, Lufthansa took a good look at SWISS-subsidiary Edelweiss, which has produced strong results by offering a high-quality leisure product.
Discover was originally planned to capture just the long-haul market with its Airbus A330s, but from November 1, 2021, also started offering short and medium-haul flights within Europe to twenty popular winter destinations in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, and North Africa. While its ten A330s and six A320s used to operate only from Frankfurt, Munich has become its second base. Long-haul flights to Las Vegas, Punta Cana, and Cancun were launched from Munich at the end of March. Male (Maldives) will follow in October. From June, five A320s will be transferred to Munich for the short and medium-haul network.
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