PASSENGERS from the Middle East will soon have more destination choices as Lufthansa is further expanding its route network to South America. From November 16, the airline will offer year-round flights to Panama City for the first time, subject to government approval.
Flying from Dubai and arriving early morning at Frankfurt, an Airbus A340-300 aircraft will fly five times a week between Frankfurt and the economic metropolis in Central America. Flight LH 484 will take off from Lufthansa’s Frankfurt hub in the morning at 10.15am and arrive in Panama in the afternoon at 4.40 pm (local time) after a flight time of 12 hours and 25 minutes. The return flight LH 485 will depart from Panama City in the early evening as a night flight and land at Frankfurt Airport the following morning leaving plenty of time to connect back to Dubai. Lufthansa is also expanding its partnership with the Panamanian airline Copa. The times of the Lufthansa services are coordinated with Copa’s connecting flights in such a way that passengers can transfer comfortably at Tocumen Airport, Copa’s ‘hub of the Americas’. The most important travel destinations in Copa’s network include airports in Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala. A return flight between Dubai-Frankfurt-Panama can be booked.