Eurowings Discover to fly 11 aircraft under own AOC

Eurowings Discover has received its own air operator’s certificate and will fly leisure routes as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lufthansa from late July. The Lufthansa Group unit was awarded its AOC by the German Federal Aviation Authority on 16 June. It will operate its inaugural flight, from Frankfurt to Mombasa with an onward connection to Zanzibar, on 24 July. In August, it will add service to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and Windhoek in Namibia, followed by flights to Las Vegas and Mauritius in October. Lufthansa Group had previously announced that Eurowings would begin operating a raft of long-haul routes in summer 2022 using “Eurowings Discover” branding. Now that it has its own AOC, Eurowings Discover will operate short-, medium- and long-haul flights under “its own commercial and operational responsibility”, says Lufthansa Group. The new leisure unit’s fleet will consist of 11 aircraft this year, growing to 21 by mid-2022. The aircraft will be a mixture of 10 Airbus A320s and 11 A330s sourced from “the Lufthansa Group fleet pool”.<br/>