German Low Cost Carrier to Launch Havana Flight

havana-live-eurowingsHAVANA, june 10th Starting this year’s December 15, Eurowings route will serve one flight a week from Cologne/Bonn to Havana, Cuba. The flights will be operated by an Airbus A330.

The German company’s move is a part its route development strategy expanding further into the American continent, after earlier last week it launched the first route to Boston.

Havana, the airliner’s latest destination, is the largest city in the Caribbean region. The city with two million inhabitants has also been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982. Knowns as the cultural centre of Cuba, Havana offers its visitors numerous historical attractions such as museums, palaces, colonial-style public squares, churches and fortresses.

Eurowings will fly to the Cuban capital on Thursdays departing from Konrad-Adenauer Airport at 11.25 and touches down in Havana at 16.50 local time. On the return flight, Eurowings takes off at 18.50 local time and lands back on the Rhine at 10.10 Friday morning.

Eurowings is a German low-cost airline headquartered in Düsseldorf and a fully owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. It serves a network of domestic and European destinations as well as some long-haul routes and maintains bases at Cologne Bonn Airport, Düsseldorf Airport, Hamburg Airport and Vienna International Airport.