Air Seychelles returns to Frankfurt

Air Seychelles is transferring its weekly flight from Munich to Frankfurt as from this weekend and will also continue offering seats on the flight operated by Condor.

The national airline began flying to Frankfurt, Germany on October 26, 1983 until March 2001 when it moved its scheduled flights to Munich and continued operating until this week.

Air Seychelles' Director for Commercial Sales, Mr Maxence Griffon Du Bellay, said: "The move to Munich was motivated with the hope of achieving better passenger loads through commercial agreements with German domestic carriers and the growing local market from southern Germany. In the beginning the results were slow but improved during the course of this year."

Mr Du Bellay explained that Air Seychelles decided to return its international service to Frankfurt as from November 1 this year as this German city fits well in the national airline's marketing strategy which aims to focus more on principal European hubs such as Paris-Charles De Gaulle, London-Heathrow, Frankfurt-am-Main and Rome-Fiumicino.

"By operating out of Frankfurt, Air Seychelles will also benefit from the extensive German Rapid train and Inter-City train network transporting and connecting passengers from other German and European cities," Mr Du Bellay added.

Meanwhile, Air Seychelles will maintain its code-share agreement with the German carrier, Condor Flugdienst GmbH, whereby the national carrier will continue having a limited number of seats on the Frankfurt-Seychelles-Frankfurt sector on the weekly Condor flights.

The Air Seychelles flight to Frankfurt departs Mahe on Saturdays at 0935 hrs and returns the next day at 0715 hrs. As from next week, the Condor flights will arrive Mahe on Mondays at 0845 hrs and returns at 2350hours on the same day.

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