Eurowings Discover is a
German
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airline
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headquartered in
Frankfurt
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. It is owned by the
Lufthansa Group
Deutsche Lufthansa AG (), commonly shortened to Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Germany. When combined with its subsidiaries, it is the second- largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried. Lufthansa is one of the five founding ...
and serves leisure destinations around the
Mediterranean
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,
North America and the
Caribbean from its bases at
Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport (; german: link=no, Flughafen Frankfurt Main , also known as ''Rhein-Main-Flughafen'') is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of Germany and one of the world's leading financial centres ...
[ and ]Munich Airport
Munich International Airport- Franz Josef Strauß (german: link=no, Flughafen München) is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria. It is the second-busiest airport in Germany in terms of passenger traffic after Frankfurt A ...
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History
Eurowings Discover started operations on 24 July 2021, flying from Frankfurt to Mombasa
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and Zanzibar
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with A330
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, having obtained its air operator's certificate
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. It is considered to be the main competitor of German leisure carrier Condor
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They are:
* The Andean condor (''Vu ...
which serves several of the routes Eurowings Discover will also take up.
The carrier has already expanded its network to Punta Cana
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, Windhoek
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and Victoria Falls. Later in 2021 Eurowings Discover was added flights to Las Vegas
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, Mauritius
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, Bridgetown
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, Montego Bay, Varadero, Canary Islands, Egypt, and Morocco. The fleet is supposed to grow to 10 A320s and 11 A330s by mid 2022.
In September 2021, Lufthansa announced it would move responsibility for several mid-haul leisure routes to Eurowings Discover. It based three Airbus A320-200
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s in Frankfurt serving five destinations on the Canary Islands in late 2021.
In summer 2022, Eurowings Discover established its second operational base at Munich Airport
Munich International Airport- Franz Josef Strauß (german: link=no, Flughafen München) is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria. It is the second-busiest airport in Germany in terms of passenger traffic after Frankfurt A ...
, focused on short-haul operations around the Mediterranean.[airliners.de - "Eurowings Discover opens Munich base"]
2 June 2022
In September 2022, Lufthansa moved some of its own routes to Canada
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to Eurowings Discover for the upcoming winter season. In late 2022, Eurowings Discover announced it would focus its long-haul operations at Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport (; german: link=no, Flughafen Frankfurt Main , also known as ''Rhein-Main-Flughafen'') is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of Germany and one of the world's leading financial centres ...
, terminating their North American and Caribbean services from Munich Airport
Munich International Airport- Franz Josef Strauß (german: link=no, Flughafen München) is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria. It is the second-busiest airport in Germany in terms of passenger traffic after Frankfurt A ...
.[ch-aviation.com - Germany's EW Discover to focus on long-haul at Frankfurt]
14 December 2022 Prior to this, the flights were already suspended as the airline took over North American routes at Frankfurt Airport from parent Lufthansa due to staff shortages.aerotelegraph.com
(German) 8 December 2022
Destinations
Fleet
, Eurowings Discover operates the following aircraft:
References
External links
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{{Airlines of Germany
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Airlines established in 2021