4th Quarter 2019

Dear Airline-Partners,

Were you there? Hamburg recently hosted the two-day CAPA Low Cost Long Haul Global Summit 2019, the world’s only gathering for international representatives of the aviation industry to discuss the poten-tial of long-haul flights in the low-cost segment. And Hamburg Airport itself has a lot of potential for new low-cost long-haul routes, for example to Canada, the USA or Asia. But there is a lot of potential in the European market here for the coming year, too. Just take a look at our freshly updated Route Shop or talk to us directly!

Enjoy Reading, Jörgen

Construction work at the airport

Hamburg Airport is getting up to date, with modernisation work in the terminals and on the apron. And progress is being made. The eighth of ten phases in the 120-million-euro apron refurbishment is well underway and the whole project will be completed in 2020. As part of the construction work for the ongoing refurbishment of the baggage conveyor system in Terminal 2, some airlines are relocating temporarily to Termi-nal 1, expecting to return in May 2020. The future

Highlights from the CAPA Conference

Around 140 international representatives of the aviation industry gathered in Hamburg last month for the second Low Cost Long Haul Global Summit, discussing developments in this emergent route market. And the experts agreed that new aircraft such as the Airbus A-321XLR will change the market and help to develop this segment. Theoretically, any airline can join in. The market is growing rapidly, particularly in Asia as more and more people discover air tra-

Development of the tourism market in HAM

Over the past ten years, the overall tourism market from Hamburg Airport has grown by some 71 percent in terms of passengers! Spain makes up almost half of the total market. Turkey’s market share declined in 2016 and 2017, while Spain’s grew. The passenger share for the Iberian Peninsula did go down again in 2018 and 2019, though, with Greece, Turkey and other smaller alternative markets growing. In total, almost 80 percent of charter demand from 2012 to 2014 was limited to Spain and Turkey, whereas the spread was broader for 2018/2019.

shuttle gates on Apron 2 will enter operation in summer 2021.

vel, and a dense network of low-cost long-haul routes has arisen over the past 10 years. But the network is growing in Europe, too, and there is significant potential for new low-cost long-haul routes, also at HAM.

Corendon started a twice weekly service to Hurghada.

Alitalia will be offering a new daily service to Milan/Linate from the end of March.

Iberia will be flying to Madrid up to twice daily from summer.

Norwegian will be offering new twice-weekly services to Alicante and Copenhagen from summer.

Eurowings is adding several new destinations with the next summer timetable. From the end of March there will be flights to Prague on Fridays and Sundays, and a daily flight to Gothenburg (apart from Saturday). A new direct service to Larnaca (Cyprus) will operate every Saturday from May, joined in June by three weekly flights to Valencia and four weekly flights to Málaga.

Condor is launching a weekly flight to Preveza/Lefkas in May.

Pegasus is expanding its service to Istanbul for the summer to up to two flights per day.

Sunexpress is flying to Adana weekly from June, and increasing its service to Antalya from two to three flights per day.

Wizz to fly to Kutaisi twice weekly from July.

Hamburg one of the world’s 20 most liveable cities according to The Economist.

Tourist and hotel boom in Hamburg

City trip tourism to Hamburg, booming for years, continued its growth in the first six months of this year. A total of almost 3.6 million visitors came to the city in the first half of 2019, over 5 percent more than in the same period the pre-vious year. This puts Hamburg in third place in Germany, behind only Berlin and Munich.The hotel market in the city is booming too. Some eleven hotels opened their doors to guests for the first time this year, and another 26 are in planning. No other German city is seeing such expansion of capacity!

Hamburg is home to the most millionaires

in Germany

If Scrooge McDuck didn’t have his place in Duck-burg, he’d be right at home in Hamburg! The city on the banks of the Elbe is home to more millionaires than anywhere else in Germany. On top of that, Hamburg residents have the highest disposal personal income in the country, when compared on a state-by-state basis.

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Editor: Anja Compton, Production: Schellenberg&Kirchberg PR, Translation: Paul James ComptonImages: Anja Compton, Production: Schellenberg&Kirchberg PR, Translation: Paul James Compton

Images: +Hamburg Airport, CAPA Low Cost Long Haul Global Summit, www.mediaserver.hamburg.de/Schwarze/Spahrbier/ Vallbracht, panthermedia,

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