SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 18 (SeeNews) - German air carrier Lufthansa expects a double-digit rise in the number of passengers it carries to and from Bulgaria in 2008 thanks to adding new flights, a company official said on Tuesday.
The company will increase the number of its flights to and from southeast European countries as part of its plan to expand in central and eastern Europe, which it sees as one of its key markets, Lufthansa general manager for Bulgaria and Albania, Gabor Horvath, told SeeNews on the sidelines of a news conference.
“We expect high growth this year [in passenger numbers in Bulgaria], which will be a double-digit number,” Horvath said.
Horvath said Lufthansa carried more than 310,000 passengers to and from Bulgaria in 2007, raising its market share in the country to above 16% from below 15% in 2006, Horvath said.
Lufthansa expects the Bulgarian aviation market to remain stable in 2008 despite fears of a slowdown in the global economy as result of the liquidity crisis which has spread worldwide, he said.
The company will launch flights from the Romanian city of Cluj to Frankfurt and will add a third return daily flight between Sofia and Frankfurt starting March 30.
Lufthansa plans to add a daily flight from Munich to Serbia’s capital Belgrade by the end of April and add one more frequency on its Frankfurt-Belgrade route by the end of March, he added. The German air carrier will also start flying several times a week from Geneva to Bucharest from March 31.
Lufthansa flies more than 600 times per week to and from central and eastern European countries. It carried 3.5 million passengers to and from Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Romania, Albania and Moldova last year.
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