Lufthansa Group’s newest leisure airline, Eurowings Discover has commenced five times weekly flight operations from Frankfurt to Windhoek, the capital city of Namiba.
The airline touched down in Namibia for the very first time on Wednesday August 10th 2021.
According to a press release by Lufthansa, the new carrier departed from Frankfurt on August 10, 2021, with an Airbus A330-200. Flight 4Y132 arrived at Hosea Kutako International Airport at 8:05 am on time.
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Eurowings Discover operates five weekly connections from Frankfurt to Windhoek in 2021, with return flights on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. From summer 2022, the leisure carrier will even increase its service to daily flights with three weekly onward tag flights to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
Captain Wolfgang Raebiger, who is also the CEO of the new airline, operated the first flight to Windhoek, which was welcomed by an airport event and special guests including the German Ambassador Herbert Beck.