South Africa becomes Cologne Bonn’s sixth African destination to be served by Eurowings

November 9, 2017: The German-based Lufthansa group carrier has commenced Cologne Bonn’s first connection to South Africa by connecting Cape Town with Eurowings. This is just a few months after Cologne Bonn added Namibia to its African route network with Eurowings.

The low-cost long-haul services to Cape Town from the German gateway, the sector will be flown weekly using the airline’s 306-seat A330s.

“Cape Town is another spectacular long-distance destination for our passengers. Travellers who want to fly comfortably and non-stop to the South African metropolis now have the exclusive opportunity from Cologne Bonn as our direct connections to Cape Town and Windhoek are unique in the North Rhine-Westphalia region. ,” enthuses Michael Garvens, chairman of the Management Board, Cologne Bonn.

As South Africa becomes Cologne Bonn’s sixth African country market to be served, Eurowings’ operation joins the airport’s existing links to Egypt, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia and Tunisia. A result of this capacity expansion sees Cologne Bonn now offer over 4,000 weekly one-way seats to eight destinations on its African network. South Africa also becomes Cologne Bonn’s 48th country market to be served during 2017.

Flughafen Köln/Bonn GmbH is the operator of Cologne Bonn Airport. The public enterprise is owned by a consortium of shareholders, jointly-held by the Federal Republic of Germany (30.94 percent), and the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (30.94 percent), together with the City of Cologne (31.12 percent), the City of Bonn (6.06 percent), the Rhein-Sieg district (0.59 percent), and the Rheinisch Bergisch district (0.35 percent).

Cologne Bonn Airport handled 11.9 million passengers in 2016, flying on the airport’s services to 126 destinations across 44 countries, and handled 786,000 tonnes of cargo.