Lufthansa Upgrades Nairobi Service With Wide Body Aircraft

Lufthansa Group customers in Kenya will have another reason to choose the carrier when flying to Europe and beyond.

Commencing Thursday night, September 1st, 2016 Lufthansa German Airlines started serving the Kenyan capital exclusively with wide body aircraft.  The airline will offer passengers four weekly flights with the latest Lufthansa long haul product and dramatically increasing the available capacity on the popular Frankfurt – Nairobi route.

“We are thrilled to expand our operations this week and offer our customers in Nairobi as well as those travelling to Kenya , an upgraded product in which we have invested 1 million euros daily over the last three years,” said Tobias Ernst, Regional Manager for Lufthansa in East Africa.

Expanding from three to four weekly flights, the service will initially operated be on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays by an Airbus A340-300 in a three class configuration offering customers 18 Business Class seats, a new Premium Economy cabin seating 19, 261 Economy Class seats and a total of capacity of 298. Commencing on October 30^th, Fridays will be offered instead of Saturdays.

Popular with customers, Lufthansa will maintain the late night departure from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.  With an early morning arrival in Frankfurt  passengers will have access to over 200 destinations from  Lufthansa’s growing raft of flights to Europe, North & South America, as well as Asia, including those of the carrier’s Asian and North American partners. As a further positive development for the route, Lufthansa’s flights to and from Nairobi will carry its Star Alliance partner United Airline’s code, offering even more seamless connections to the carrier’s US network.