TUI fly starts at Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport

The airline TUI fly starts today from Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport. The world's leading tourism group and tour operator TUI uses its own subsidiary at its home port in the winter flight schedule. Flights to the Canary Islands and Egypt are available until the end of April. In addition, the number of seats offered by TUI will be significantly expanded again this coming summer. The Hannover-based TUI Group owns 380 of its own hotels (including RIU, Robinson, TUI Blue), the cruise companies Hapag-Lloyd Cruises and TUI Cruises (Mein Schiff), and six European airlines with 150 aircraft.
  
The first start of the TUI fly took place punctually at 9.20 am to Fuerteventura. Other destinations in the current winter timetable include Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Hurghada. In total there are seven weekly flights. Used are Boeing 737-700 aircraft with space for 144 passengers.
  
"Ostwestfalen-Lippe is an economically strong region and has a large catchment area. Our airline TUI fly is back at the Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport and this winter offers attractive destinations for the Canaries and Egypt. With now three departure airports in North Rhine-Westphalia, TUI fly offers its guests a large selection and is represented in a growing market throughout the region. The seating capacity will be extended to the summer of 2019, also Mallorca and the Greek islands flies TUI fly directly from Paderborn-Lippstadt. For the vacationers between Sauerland, Teutoburg Forest and Lippe there are more TUI fly offers near the place of residence. This makes travel shorter and travel more comfortable, "says Thomas Ellerbeck, member of the Group Executive Committee of the TUI Group and member of the TUI fly GmbH Supervisory Board, on the occasion of the departure of the fully booked first flight X3 2752 at the airport.
  
For the summer timetable 2019, TUI is again significantly expanding its capacities at Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport and will use a Boeing 737-800 with 189 seats. With more than 76,000 seats available, the offer will increase by around 60 percent compared to the previous year. As of May 2019, Palma de Mallorca alone will be served six times a week. The Greek islands of Crete, Rhodes and Kos are as well as the Canary Island Fuerteventura twice a week in the program. Tenerife and Gran Canaria as well as the Egyptian seaside resort Hurghada complete the offer with one flight per week.

With the TUI children's party prices starting at € 99, family holidays become even more attractive. If you book until November 27th, children between the ages of two and eleven fly for a fixed price of € 99 on holiday. The price is valid in over 30 selected family hotels for selected package tours in the travel period April 1st - September 30th 2019. Whether the journey lasts seven, ten, or fourteen days is irrelevant.
  
"For the third year in a row, TUI is maintaining its growth course at Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport. This is an impressive development and at the same time a proof of the growing demand for attractive tourist offers, "says Dr. Marc Cezanne, Managing Director of Flughafen Paderborn / Lippstadt GmbH.

Stefan Hensel
Head of Corporate Communications
Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport
+49 (0)2955 77 269
+49 (0)2955 77 319
hensel-s@airport-pad.com

(photo:Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport)