The Ministry of Tourism reports that TUIfly has plans to increase its air routes to the Dominican Republic for next winter. New direct flights are being added from Düsseldorf, Germany to Punta Cana and Puerto Plata, with four frequencies a week onboard the Boeing 787 (Dreamliner) with capacity for 300 seats. The flights are scheduled to begin on 4 November 2020. The company will fly from Düsseldorf three times a week to Punta Cana on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and on Wednesday it will fly to Puerto Plata.
Condor offers 10 flights from Frankfurt and Munich (1.5 of which are charters with the DER Touristik group).
And Lufthansa announced it will fly from Dusseldorf to Punta Cana, three times a week in winter (Wednesday, Friday and Sunday). The Dusseldorf flight is expected to be a preferred connection for Germans living in the affluent North Rhine-Westphalia region.
The company announces that Punta Cana is one of the airline’s most important long-haul destinations in the winter 2020-21, with six weekly flights from Frankfurt (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday) and two weekly flights from Munich (Wednesday, Saturday).
Also, DER Touristik in collaboration with Condor will launch a flight from Frankfurt to Puerto Plata on Sundays and a combined flight to Puerto Plata with Santo Domingo on Wednesdays.
For next winter, the number of direct flights from Germany to the Dominican Republic will increase to 17.
These plans would have been announced during the ITB travel show that for the first time in its history was canceled in Berlin, Germany. There are expectations the effects of Covid-19 virus on global travel will be over in time for summer travel.
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10 March 2020
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