airberlin Increases Flight Frequency To Greece For Summer 2014

Germany’s second largest airline airberlin announced on 14 January that it will increase the frequency of flights to Greece by 11 percent compared with summer 2013, to 172 flights a week.

Next summer, airberlin will offer seven additional flights a week to the airport of Heraklion on Crete.

For tourists wishing to travel to Kos and Santorini, there will be three more flights a week to each destination, meaning that airberlin will be flying seven times a week to Santorini and 21 times a week to Kos.

There will also be one extra flight a week to each of Chania, Kalamata, Lesvos, Mykonos, Rhodes, Samos and Zakynthos.

“Tourist flights are an important pillar in our business model and we are constantly improving our services,” said Senior Vice President Sales Touristic Services Detlef Altmann.

In addition, the German airline will increase the frequency of flights to the Canary Islands and include new destinations in its portfolio by adding Larnaca and Malta. airberlin also offers a regular schedule of long-haul tourist flights, including to Curaçao, Cuba, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Fort Myers, Miami, New York (JFK) and the Thai holiday island of Phuket.