TUIfly returns more than half its 737s to service

German leisure carrier TUIfly has reactivated more than half of its fleet since restarting regular flights on 15 June. The airline says it has carried around 250,000 passengers on 2,000 flights, and that 21 of its 39 Boeing 737s were back in service last month. Flights are being operated from 10 airports across Germany and Switzerland to holiday destinations within the EU. Among the most popular destinations are Spanish islands Majorca and Fuerteventura and Greek islands Crete, Kos und Rhodes, TUIfly notes. Weekly flights to Turkish destination Dalaman from Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Hannover are scheduled to begin on 28 November. The airline says it intends to resume services to Egypt and Cape Verde as soon as government travel warnings for these locations have been lifted. “The aim is to be able to offer more than half of the originally planned capacity [for the summer 2020 schedule] in the coming months.”<br/>