Hotel & Tourism SMARTreport #45

Hotel & Tourism
SMARTreport #45
2020 Winter Edition 27
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LUFTHANSA
FLIES FROM
MUNICH TO
PARIS-ORLY
FOR THE
FIRST TIME
BRITISH AIRWAYS OFFSETS
CARBON EMISSIONS ON LOCAL
FLIGHTS
Since January 2020, British Airways has
become the first UK airline to offset carbon
emissions on all its flights within the UK. All
customers flying within the UK this year on
flights operated by British Airways have the
carbon emissions from their flights offset by
the airline and invested in carbon reduction
projects around the world. These projects
will include renewable energy, protection of
rainforests and reforestation programmes.
The announcement came as British Airways’
parent company, International Airlines
Group (IAG), became the first airline group
worldwide to commit to achieving net zero
carbon emissions by 2050, contributing to
both the UK Government’s commitment to
a net zero carbon economy by 2050 and
the United Nations’ objective to limit global
warming to 1.5 degrees
A Lufthansa
Bombardier CRJ900
AIR FRANCE KLM ENTERS
NEW CODESHARE
AGREEMENT WITH JETSTAR
After the resumption of codeshare
cooperation in 2018 with Qantas, both
Air France and KLM have, since January,
launched a codeshare cooperation with
JetStar Airways and Jetstar Asia Airways, two
airlines which are part of the Qantas Group
portfolio. Under this agreement, Air France
and KLM customers have access to a wider
range of destinations in Southeast Asia.
Connecting in Singapore from Amsterdam
or Paris, Air France and KLM will place their
code on 12 additional destinations operated
by Jetstar Asia Airways: Da Nang (Vietnam),
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Denpasar
(Indonesia), Medan (Indonesia), Surabaya
(Indonesia), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Siem
Reap (Cambodia), Kula Lumpur (Malaysia),
Penang (Malaysia), Phuket (Thailand),
Yangon (Myanmar), and Darwin (Australia)
10 additional A350-900s have been
ordered from Airbus by Air France-
KLM Group in December 2019
From 16 March Lufthansa will include
Orly airport (ORY) in its flight schedule
for the first time. In the 2019/20
winter timetable, a Bombardier
CRJ900 will take off twice daily from
Munich to the French capital. Flights
to Orly complement Lufthansa’s 40
weekly flights between Munich and
Paris Charles-de-Gaulle, offering
ideal travel connections to the
French capital for any purpose and
time of day. "Paris is one of the
most important destinations in the
world for the Lufthansa Group. With
Paris-Orly, our guests for the first
time have a direct connection from
the south of the metropolis to our
Munich hub," says Wilken Bormann,
CEO Hub Munich. Orly Airport is
located nine kilometres south of
Paris and is easy to reach by public
transport. Last year, Orly had 33
million passengers