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Thuringia is home to two million travelers and a strong industry
Aside being the center for solar industry in Germany, the catchment area of the Erfurt Airport hosts a very strong optical and automotive industry.
164 destinations can be reached directly of with one stop from Erfurt. The main hub serviced from Erfurt is Munich.
Thanks to excellent train and highway connections, the catchment area reaches down to Würzburg and Schweinfurt in Bavaria, East into Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and up to Berlin, West into Kassel and Frankfurt. Thuringia enjoys a number of renowned universities, the most famous ones being sure the Bauhaus University in Weimar and the Technical University in Ilmenau - their students being naturally inclined to travel.
Air Berlin has based an aircraft at Erfurt Airport, operating mostly charter flights into the Mediterranean from Erfurt. Additional services to Air Berlin's hubs in Nuremberg and Palma de Mallorca offer convenient onward services into many other destinations. Scheduled services are provided by Lufthansa-partner Cirrus Airlines between Erfurt and Munich, rates as low as €99 make it fast, convenient and often even cheaper than the alternate to fly to Frankfurt connecting to the train feeder service.
On the scheduled charter flights, airlines flying to Erfurt, most airlines appreciated a 90%+ load factor, reducing the number of cheap last-minute-packages. In return, passengers in Erfurt are used (and advised) to book early for low rates. Another result of these high load factors is the increase of seat capacity by the major tour operators from 20 to 50%, adding even new capacity at Erfurt.
If you are interested to see, where you can fly from Erfurt directly or with just one stop, download our flight schedule. Please keep in mind, that many of the large airlines flying from Munich offer additional flights via their own hubs - such as Emirates in Dubai, S7 in Moscow, Delta Airlines in Atlanta, but many others as well. Even the Lufthansa partners in the Star Alliance and Lufthansa itself often offer better rates from Munich, compared to the Lufthansa air fares from Erfurt directly.