Are you looking for a last-minute holiday over the long Corpus Christi weekend? If so, you are in luck as German national flag carrier Lufthansa is now offering more flights to attractive sunny destinations. In a statement released yesterday, Lufthansa says that from Thursday, June 3 until Sunday, June 6, it is increasing its number of flights to short-haul European holiday hotspots in Greece, Portugal, and Spain.
Additional flights will be added from Frankfurt and Munich to the Spanish Balearic Islands, Portugal's Algarve, and the Greek Island of Crete. Lufthansa has increased flights to Heraklion, Faro, Lisbon, Valencia, Ibiza, and Palma de Mallorca. Lufthansa customers can select from 20 additional flights quickly and conveniently by booking their travel on Lufthansa.com. All flights are available for booking now and are combined with attractive and flexible booking options.
What is Corpus Christi Day?
Roman Catholics celebrate Corpus Christi Day (Fronleichnam) in Germany in honor of the Eucharist, which is the Holy Communion and last supper Jesus had with his disciples. The day is a public holiday in the German states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saarland and some parts of Sachsen and Thuringia.
The Feast of Corpus Christi is celebrated on the second Thursday, 60 days after Easter Sunday and ten days after Pentecost. With it always falling on a Thursday, it allows Germans to take a long weekend break.
Additional summer destinations
Lufthansa and its subsidiary airline Eurowings are offering more summer 2021 vacation destinations than ever before. For the first time, Lufthansa is flying non-stop to 12 destinations in Greece. Lufthansa customers can also select from choice tropical long-haul destinations such as Male in the Maldives, Cancun, Mexico, and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. Lufthansa is hoping that people want to get away following a year of restrictions brought about by COVID-19.
Lufthansa 2022 Schedule
In other Lufthansa news regarding the 2022 schedule, the airline said that it would fly to Punta Cana and Cancun and add a twice-weekly service from Munich to Las Vegas in the United States.
From Frankfurt Rhein-Main-Flughafen (FRA) back on the schedule for 2022, the Lufthansa Group will add three flights a week to Fort Myers in Florida and Panama City in Central America. From May 2022, Salt Lake City will be served for the first time with three weekly non-stop flights. From June 2022, Lufthansa will add two flights per week from Frankfurt to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) in northern Tanzania.
For this summer, Lufthansa is offering flights to the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa with onward flights to the dream island destinations of Zanzibar in Tanzania. The flights will be available for booking from May 26 on Lufthansa.com.
Summer 2022 long-haul holiday destination flights will be operated out of Frankfurt and Munich by Eurowings Discover. With its new leisure destination spinoff, Eurowings Discover, Lufthansa aims to compete with German charter airline Condor Flugdienst on vacation destination flights out of Frankfurt. According to what we know, it will deploy Airbus A330 aircraft on the routes.
Are you planning to get away for a long Corpus Christi weekend break? If so, please tell us in the comments where you are going and what you are looking forward to the most.