Last April, Lufthansa switched to larger aircraft in Debrecen, and now the number of flights is being increased.
From April, Lufthansa will operate flights between Debrecen and Munich on Thursdays and Sundays, according to the BMW Group Factory Debrecen’s Facebook page. As they write, their CFO, Eske Herrstroem Financial, was present at the announcement of the capacity expansion. They added that as the series production of the purely electric-powered Neue Klasse generation of models approaches, their colleagues in Germany will also receive intensive training.
“We are one factory and one team, where close cooperation between the different departments ensures that all processes are in line for the start of series production. We are therefore delighted to have a link between Debrecen and Munich almost every day of the week,” they say.
Mayor László Papp also commented on the news on his Facebook page, saying that “BMW’s presence in our city supports the airport, among many other positive economic factors.”
The Luthansa currently runs three times a week between Debrecen and Munich, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. In April last year, it was announced that a larger aircraft with 215 seats would be added to the two weekly flights.
The new flights have been announced at Debrecen airport in recent weeks. As it turned out, there will also be charter flights from Debrecen to Crete and Heraklion, organized by Kartago Tours, and from June onwards, Antalya in Turkey and Monastir in Tunisia will also be available with their charters.
All this means that in just over a month, six new flights will be launched from Debrecen airport.
The Hungarian subsidiary of the Czech Smartwings group has added two new destinations from Debrecen to its 2025 summer schedule. Between the beginning of June and the end of September, there will be one flight a week from Debrecen to Barcelona and one to Tirana. The Spanish city will be served by the airline’s Boeing 737-800 aircraft on Thursdays and the Albanian capital on Mondays.
Barcelona has already had a flight from Debrecen, operated by Wizz Air for a couple of years, when we wrote this article about the Spanish city, but there has never been a scheduled flight to Tirana from Debrecen.
A week earlier, Israel’s Israir announced plans to launch a Debrecen-Tel Aviv flight at the end of April, which was also a popular Wizz Air flight before the 2023 Hamas terror attack on Israel.
Mayor László Papp said at the December assembly that after Wizz Air significantly reduced the number of its flights to Debrecen due to its own capacity problems, the municipality and the majority owner of the company operating the airport, the Ministry of National Economy, are working to expand the destinations. The mayor hopes that up to 3 or 4 new airlines will be able to enter the airport.
Currently, Lufthansa flies to Munich and Wizz Air to London. Wizz Air will resume flights to Larnaca in Cyprus at the beginning of April.
