Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific Airways and the Lufthansa Group have announced plans for a new codeshare agreement to offer their passengers selected flights under their partner’s flight number.
For Lufthansa Group customers, this will significantly improve the connections available from Hong Kong towards Australia and New Zealand, the two airlines said. The agreement was signed by Ivan Chu, chief executive Cathay Pacific Airways, and Carsten Spohr, chairman of the executive board and CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
Due to this partnership with Cathay Pacific, Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and Austrian Airlines (Austrian) will be able to offer their passengers four new destinations in Australia and New Zealand as connecting flights via Hong Kong, from April 26, 2017.
Passengers arriving in Hong Kong from Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Zurich will be able to transfer to selected Cathay Pacific connections with only one booking. Furthermore, passengers can check their baggage through to their final destination on any route of Cathay and collect miles on the respective code-share flight segments.
The new destinations via Hong Kong are as follows:
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Cairns
- Auckland
In turn, Cathay Pacific passengers, under Cathay Pacific flight numbers, can reach fourteen different Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian destinations in Europe with their ticket, thereby expanding their options for the existing Cathay Pacific flights to Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Zurich.
The Cathay Pacific Cargo and Lufthansa Cargo airfreight subsidiaries signed a cooperation agreement back in May 2016 and, since February 2017, have been jointly marketing their capacities on flights between Hong Kong and Europe. Cathay Pacific Cargo has also taken over Lufthansa Cargo’s airfreight handling operations in Hong Kong and Lufthansa those of Cathay Pacific in Frankfurt. Joint shipments from Europe to Hong Kong are planned from 2018.
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