SECTOR FOCUS: BUSINESS TRAVEL
Birmingham on its services. Lufthansa Group (Lufthansa, Swiss and Brussels
airlines) said that in 2015, 737,000 people used its services – an increase of 5.5 per cent on 2014. The figures show that half of the passengers
leaving Birmingham on airlines in the Lufthansa Group took advantage of the quick and easy onward connections to the airline’s worldwide network through its Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich and Brussels hubs.
Record year for Lufthansa G
erman airline group Lufthansa Group has announced that last year was a record for passengers travelling to and from
Announcing the figures during a visit to
Birmingham, Christian Schindler, Lufthansa’s regional director UK, Ireland & Iceland, said: “Once again, Birmingham has proved to be a key market within the Lufthansa group network. Despite a challenging last quarter of the year the demand for our services has continued to grow proving once again that discerning travellers appreciate the way Lufthansa continues to respond to the challenges of the travel market.” In 2015, the most popular onward destinations
for Lufthansa’s Birmingham travellers included Vienna, Graz, Prague, Shanghai, Johannesburg and Budapest.
Testing times ahead for trams
Essential overnight testing of the electrical systems along the new Midland Metro route is to be carried out by Centro, the region’s transport delivery body, on 23 April – in readiness for opening up the next leg of the Birmingham city centre tram extension. Phil Hewitt, Metro programme
director, said: "This is a crucial piece of work because once done it clears the way for us to carry out the final testing and staff training for the new extension. Once that process is completed we can start running trams down to New Street Station." Trams returned to the streets of Birmingham for the first time in more than 60 years in December when the Midland Metro started running to a new stop in Bull Street. But work to complete the remainder of the route along Corporation Street and Stephenson Street to New Street Station was suspended for eight weeks in the run up to Christmas. The £128m project, which
Flying high: a Lufthansa Airbus A320
includes a fleet of 21 new trams and a new maintenance depot at Wednesbury, is expected to boost the West Midlands economy by more than £50 million a year and create 1,300 new jobs.
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