Condor announces 3 daily flights from Frankfurt to London Gatwick, returns to Sulaymaniyah and Tbilisi
November 16, 2025
Condor, Germany’s second largest airline after the Lufthansa Group, is continuing its European expansion with the announcement of three daily flights to London Gatwick as of Summer 2026.
The new route forms part of its new strategy after the ‘Special Prorate Agreement’ (SPA) with Lufthansa came to an end. Condor had relied on Lufthansa’s European network to provide feeder traffic to its leisure-focused long-haul network.
Instead, Condor has revised its long-haul network and developed its own European network to fill part of the traffic void post-SPA.
Condor is launching one of its highest-frequency European routes
London Gatwick flights will launch on 1 April 2026. The service will operate three times a day. Crucially, this will appeal to both leisure and higher-yielding business traffic. In other words it is not a feeder flights for its broader long-haul network – it has a significant appeal to point-to-point traffic.
| Flight Slot | LGW → FRA | FRA → LGW | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departure | Arrival | Departure | Arrival | |
| 1st Flight | 10:20 | 12:50 | 08:20 | 08:55 |
| 2nd Flight | 15:40 | 18:10 | 14:00 | 14:35 |
| 3rd Flight | 19:50 | 22:20 | 18:15 | 18:50 |
The Frankfurt to Gatwick connection will become Condor’s highest-frequency route, alongside five others. Also operating three times a day in April 2026 are flights from Frankfurt to Zurich, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna and Berlin. Flights to Milan and Prague operate up to three times daily, data from aviation analytics firm Cirium shows. Gatwick is already open for booking on the airline’s website. No connecting options beyond Frankfurt are listed.
It is also worth highlighting that Condor has avoided London Heathrow. Aside from being expensive to operate to, it is much more slot-constrained than London Gatwick. Convenient connections from London to Gatwick make it a viable alternative.
One of the other reasons for which London Heathrow is so sought after is for its transatlantic connections with partner airlines. Because this does not concern Condor as much as it does for Lufthansa for example, Gatwick makes a lot of sense.
New flights to Sulaymaniyah and Tbilisi
It is also expanding its network Eastwards. Though it maintains an important presence in Europe and the transatlantic market, its Asian and African networks are not insignificant. In April 2026, Cirium data shows the carrier will fly to the likes of Bangkok, Male, Mauritius, Johannesburg and Cape Town to name a few.
Its medium-haul Eastbound network is quite limited, though. It flies to Beirut and Dubai, as well as nearby Hurghada in Egypt.
The carrier will resume weekly flights to Sulaymaniyah in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in Iraq as of December this year from Düsseldorf. Condor highlighted that the route caters to passengers “wishing to visit family and friends in the region.”
No other airline flies between the European Union and Sulaymaniyah. Turkish Airlines offers flights via its Istanbul hub. Sulaymaniyah is the second-largest city in the Kurdistan Region after the capital, Erbil, which boasts a sizeable European network.
Tbilisi will resume in June 2026, with daily flights from Frankfurt. Condor will be the only airline connecting the Georgian capital with Frankfurt. Next summer three other airlines will fly to the city from Germany, including Lufthansa from Munich, Eurowings from Düsseldorf and Georgian Airways from Berlin. The airline’s booking website shows convenient onward connections are possible across its European network to places like Barcelona, Berlin, Paris and Vienna.
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