Leipzig

This Aviation.Direct section deals with aviation topics Deutschland

This Aviation.Direct section deals with aviation topics from GermanyWhether Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn or Rostock-Laage, you have come to the right place.

Quick access to the news from your airport:

 

Brandenburg Gate (Photo: Pixabay).

Leipzig: Smartwings takes over FTI Dubai charter

The tour operator FTI will have its Dubai charter flights offered from Leipzig/Halle operated by the Czech company Smartwings. The tour operator is currently cooperating with Smartlynx on this route. Available travel offers indicate that operational operations will be switched to Smartwings with effect from October 6, 2024. There will then be two weekly rotations,

Continue reading

Summer 2024: News in Dresden and Leipzig

With up to 56 weekly departures to 14 destinations, Condor is once again the number one holiday airline at Leipzig/Halle Airport. New to this summer schedule are the destinations Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain and Agadir in Morocco. These sunny destinations will be served on Fridays and

Continue reading

Leipzig: Wizz Air announces Bucharest and Tirana

The low-cost airline Wizz Air will start flying from Leipzig/Halle to Bucharest and Tirana this year. From June 20, 2024, Wizz Air plans to offer the Leipzig/Halle – Bucharest connection every Thursday and Sunday. Flights between Leipzig/Halle and Tirana will be offered from September 30, 2024. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Continue reading

East German politicians are calling for more long-haul flights

Even more than 30 years after German reunification, there are only a few long-haul connections in eastern Germany. Now the state premiers are demanding that the service from Leipzig/Halle and Berlin-Brandenburg be increased. The state premiers of the eastern German states recently held a meeting and then ranted that this region of Germany is almost completely cut off from long-haul air traffic.

Continue reading

Summer 2024: Eurowings wants to reactivate Leipzig-Düsseldorf

The Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings intends to offer domestic flights between Düsseldorf and Leipzig/Halle again in the 2024 summer flight schedule. The route has been idle for some time. Eurowings is now planning to reactivate it on a small scale. According to Leipzig/Halle Airport, flights will be operated three times a week again from April 8, 2024. The rotations are to take place on the days of operation

Continue reading

Additional passengers thanks to winter holidays in Dresden and Leipzig

To mark the start of the holidays in Saxony and Thuringia, a total of 92 passenger planes will take off from the Central German airports from next Friday to Sunday – 35 from Dresden Airport and 57 from Leipzig/Halle Airport. In addition to sunny destinations on the Mediterranean, in the Atlantic, on the Red Sea and on the Persian Gulf, European and German metropolises can be found on

Continue reading

Also to Munich, Stuttgart and Frankfurt: Wizz Air is launching special European Football Championship flights

The low-cost airline Wizz Air is launching a number of special flights to mark the European Football Championship, which will take place in Germany this year. The airline is also flying to airports such as Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart and Munich. These airports are not normally part of the airline's route network. Wizz Air will be operating special flights from Vienna-Schwechat Airport to

Continue reading

February 1, 2024: Verdi calls on security staff at eleven airports to go on strike

The Verdi union is calling on security personnel at eleven German airports to go on strike on February 1, 2024. Passengers must expect significant restrictions and many flight cancellations, as individual airports have already announced that there will be no departures at all on Thursday. At the airports of Hamburg, Bremen, Hanover, Berlin, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Leipzig/Halle,

Continue reading

Leipzig: Lufthansa discontinues Munich connection

Leipzig/Halle Airport will not be connected to the Lufthansa hub in Munich in the 2024 summer flight schedule. The route will be discontinued – at least temporarily – on March 31, 2024. The Kranich Group’s reasoning is similar to that for the Frankfurt flights from Friedrichshafen, Linz and Innsbruck. The capacities would be reduced due to the problems with the

Continue reading

Join us on:

Want to receive all the latest news free of charge by email? Subscribe to our newsletter now!

With the  free Aviation.Direct newsletter You will receive the latest information from the world of aviation, travel and tourism directly by email free of charge. Of course, you can unsubscribe easily and simply if you no longer wish to read the newsletter.

Interested?
You can order the newsletter free of charge here.