Now it is official: In line with the currently steep rise in booking demand for vacation trips, the new vacation airline of the Lufthansa Group is also ready for take-off.

The start-up has been in the starting blocks for several weeks. Over time, the crane daughter gave ever deeper insights into flight routes and travel destinations, although she has never started before. The problem: the airline lacked the AOC - until now! Because since yesterday, Eurowings Discover is the proud owner of a flight operating license.

“The timing could hardly have been better. People can finally travel again and we are ready to take them to the most beautiful travel destinations in the world, ”explains airline boss Wolfgang Raebiger. At the same time, the company is also doing something for the history books, because Eurowings Discover is the first airline ever in Germany to have received unlimited approval as part of a new aviation law requirement, the so-called Part-CAMO (Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization).

First flight to Mombasa with onward flight to Zanzibar

The youngest airline in the Lufthansa Group will set out on July 24th from its home airport in Frankfurt am Main on its first flight to Mombasa, a port city in Kenya. Then it goes on to Zanzibar. The flight schedule will be expanded to include further long-haul destinations in August: in addition to two weekly frequencies to Mombasa / Zanzibar, from August also three times a week to Punta Cana and five times a week to Windhoek. 

In October, Eurowings Discover also flies three times a week to Las Vegas and Mauritius. Bridgetown, Montego Bay and Varadero will be added to the 2021 winter flight schedule with three weekly frequencies each. In addition, from November the flight program will be extended to include short and medium-haul flights to the Canary Islands, Egypt and Morocco.

Wet lease flights for Air Dolomiti

But before long-haul flights start at the end of July, the Lufthansa subsidiary plans to operate selected intra-European flights in wet lease for sister company Air Dolomiti from mid-July. The fleet will consist of a maximum of eleven aircraft this year and will grow to 21 jets by the middle of next year, consisting of eleven A330s and ten A320s.