Lufthansa celebrates 40 years in Hong Kong with special website promotions

Lufthansa is giving visitors to its website three special reasons to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first flight to Hong Kong.

First, www.lufthansa-greaterchina.com is hosting various internet games, with three pairs of tickets to Europe as prizes. Then comes an online booking deal that offers a 40 per cent discount to business and economy class passengers for flights from Hong Kong to Europe and finally a bumper ticket auction including European and North and South American destinations.

"This is a very special time for us," said Juergen Thomsen, Lufthansa's General Manager for Southern China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. "The first scheduled air services between Hong Kong and Germany began when the inaugural flight by a Boeing 707 Intercontinental touched down at Kai Tak on January 24, 1961.

"We want to thank our customers for their support over all these years and, as an airline with its eye very much on the future, we thought our state-of-the-art website was the best place to do it."

In Lufthansa's internet game, running from January 8, contestants from Greater China have to spot the differences between two seemingly identical photographs and take part in a quiz. The highest scores can enter a lucky draw for the tickets.

The 40 per cent discount will go to the first 100 bookings made online at Lufthansa's Greater China site in January for travel from Hong Kong to Europe in February and March. All Greater China users are eligible. See website for more details.

The airline's ticket auction on February 1 offers bidders 40 pairs of economy class tickets to 40 destinations in Europe, North and South America, with Hong Kong to Frankfurt as the first leg of the journey.

The www.lufthansa-greaterchina.com site provides access to electronic ticketing, full schedules, information on how to plan your trip and Miles and More details.

Lufthansa German Airlines, named "Airline of the Year 2000" by Air Transport World, offers 10 non-stop flights a week from Hong Kong to its Frankfurt hub. From March 25 it will start a direct service to Munich when it switches three of its weekly night flights from Frankfurt to the southern German city.

As a founding member of Star Alliance it has developed one of the most comprehensive alliance networks in the industry, with partnerships serving all six continents.