The German carrier Lufthansa announced here on Monday that it has increased a second weekly flight to Angola with its first service opened on June 4 to strengthen its position in the African market.
Karl Ulrich Garnadt, deputy executive chairman of Lufthansa, told reporters that the new service with the flight number of LH 561 leaves Luanda on Friday and arrives in Frankfurt next day, using an Airbus A340-300.
Lufthansa has already opened the Luanda-Frankfurt route which leaves Angola on Sunday and lands in Germany on Monday.
"In spite of the current economic crisis that the globe faces and that certainly forces many sacrifices to all, Lufthansa continues to invest in some markets that are growing, in which Angola is included," Garnadt said.
The Lufthansa official said Angola offers excellent opportunities for Lufthansa to expand its routes in Africa, adding that it also opened a new route on Monday from Frankfurt to Libreville, Gabon, with a stopover in Accra, Ghana.