Lufthansa to launch Pointe Noire Flights

From 3 November 2010, Lufthansa will launch five flights weekly to Pointe Noire, the principal port in the Republic of the Congo.

 The flights, pending regulatory approval, will be flown using a Boeing 737-800 from PrivatAir. The flights to the Congolese port include a stopover in Libreville in Gabon. In future, Libreville will thus be served non-stop and not, as previously, with a stopover in Accra, Ghana.

 Lufthansa currently serves West Africa with a total of 33 weekly connections to Abuja, Accra, Lagos, Libreville, Luanda, Malabo and Port Harcourt. The services offered to the region by the Lufthansa Group are augmented by flights to a further twelve destinations in the region operated by SWISS and Brussels Airlines.

The port of Pointe Noire, the major commercial centre of the Republic of the Congo, is home to nearly 700,000 of the country’s total population of around four million people. The oil industry, a key factor in the economy of the West African Republic, accounts for about 90% of export earnings. Economic growth in 2010 is expected to be around 10%.

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