On Friday afternoon, Lufthansa took off from Munich to Seattle for the first time. The airline is now offering three weekly flights from Munich to the US metropolis on the Pacific using the Airbus A350. This makes Seattle its fifth destination on North America’s West Coast after San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver.
Thanks to its proximity to Canada, the port, and global corporations such as Amazon and Microsoft, the city with 750,000 inhabitants is the economic, scientific and cultural center of the Pacific Northwest region.
Now serving a total of 16 destinations, Munich Airport has set a new record for connections to North America. New York is the highest-volume destination with up to four flights a day. The US is the most important long-haul market for Munich Airport. A record was set last year with 78 thousand metric tonnes of air freight handled.