Lufthansa boosts service

Lufthansa boosts service

JAKARTA (JP): The German flag carrier Lufthansa will increase
its service for the Jakarta-Frankfurt route from four to five
times per week starting April 1.

The company announced yesterday that Lufthansa will operate
Boeing B-747-400 aircraft, which will depart from Jakarta for
Frankfurt on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and
Sundays.

Lufthansa will also connect Denpasar in Bali with Frankfurt
via Singapore on Saturdays and Denpasar with Frankfurt via
Bangkok on Sundays.

Lufthansa's general manager for Indonesia, Emmerich, said that
in the next 12 months, the air carrier will increase its annual
seat capacity out of Jakarta by 36 percent from about 74,000 to
over 100,000. (icn)