Flights to Tokyo city airport Haneda, four new long-haul services, additional Mediterranean destinations and the continued transfer of Lufthansa direct connections to Germanwings are the main highlights of the carrier’s 2014 summer schedule. For Lufthansa, it includes the four new destinations Jakarta, Tokyo-Haneda, Bodrum and Lamezia Terme.

Compared with the 2013 summer flight timetable, Lufthansa and Germanwings have expanded capacity by five percent as measured in available seat-km. Customers of Lufthansa from the GCC and Germanwings can choose from a total of 235 destinations in 78 countries in the 2014 summer flight timetable. It is valid from Sunday (March 30) to Oct. 25.

Germanwings is set to take off from Düsseldorf as of March 30. The handover of direct flights from Lufthansa to Germanwings is also proceeding to plan, in several stages.

The connections include those routes that do not operate through Lufthansa's Frankfurt and Munich hubs.

No fewer than three quarters of the planned connections will be flown by Germanwings in summer 2014. In Hamburg, Germanwings recently took over the routes to Paris and London, bringing the total number of destinations served from Hamburg to 24.

The handover of routes to Germanwings is now complete in Hamburg as is already the case in Stuttgart and Cologne/Bonn. In Berlin, the majority of routes have been successively transferred to Germanwings in recent months.

The remaining direct routes flown by Lufthansa from Berlin-Tegel are to be transferred to Germanwings in the summer. Passengers will then be able to fly nonstop with Germanwings from the River Spree to over 40 destinations.

The first day of the summer flight timetable on March 30 is also the date set for the handover of Lufthansa direct flights in Düsseldorf.