STORY: Lufthansa's increase of capacity to China shows strong belief in Chinese market: CEO
SHOOTING TIME: April 18/19, 2024
DATELINE: April 20, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:28
LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of a Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 landing at Shanghai Pudong International Airport 
2. various of the ceremony 
3. SOUNDBITE (English): JENS RITTER, Member of the Executive Board and CEO of Lufthansa Airlines

STORYLINE:

A Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 landed at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Thursday, marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Shanghai-Frankfurt route.

The German flagship airline's capacity to Shanghai has returned to the pre-pandemic level. Lufthansa CEO says the airline's continuous increase of capacity to China demonstrates its confidence in the Chinese market.

SOUNDBITE (English): JENS RITTER, Member of the Executive Board and CEO of Lufthansa Airlines
"We operate 35 nonstop flights from Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai to Frankfurt and Munich. We recently increased the connections between Shanghai and Frankfurt, so we have a daily connection, a double daily connection from Frankfurt to Shanghai besides our daily connections to Munich. So we are really happy about the development, and we are in position to even increase our capacity to China. 
We see the increasing demand and our continuous increase of capacity to China demonstrate our strong belief in the China market and the strong connection between China and Germany.
I think Germany has a big trust and we believe in the China market, and that's the reason why we continuously increase our partnership with China. We have a great partnership with Air China. We are eager to even increase our flights and our frequencies to fly to China. So we are really proud to be part of the partnership and the friendship with China."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Shanghai, China.
(XHTV)