The people of Lorraine love Luxembourg Airport.
But there is another one that we don’t think about enough when thinking about the next vacation destinations and which is less than 20 minutes from Forbach and 50 minutes from Metz: Saarbrücken Airport.
The darling of the Mosellans of the east.
If the Frankfurt-Hahn airport has experienced the covid crisis very badly, Saarbrücken is doing not too badly.
So much so that the airport will be offering a large number of flights from March for its summer season.
Ultimately, there will be 32 planes per week to 9 very sunny destinations.
Spain, the Canaries, Turkey, Crete, Tenerife, Rhodes, Fuerteventura and … MAJORCA (absolutely compulsory destination in Germany) with a daily flight from spring.
Mallorca is THE typical German holiday destination
We nickname this Spanish island of the Balearic Islands, located off Barcelona and Valencia, the seventeenth German land.
10% of the permanent inhabitants are of German nationality, they own a quarter of the island and almost half of the tourists are German.
They are 3 and a half million to go there every year …
Germany worships Mallorca.
In 1994, a German deputy even offered to buy the island from Spain… but it didn’t work.
From Saarbrücken, the destination is very inexpensive and it’s just under 2 hours by flight.
It is the paradise island closest to Germany and therefore to the Moselle too.
“The island of cleaning ladies”
The island is also nicknamed “Putzfraueninsel“by the Germans (the island of cleaning ladies) because everything is affordable.
So wealthy Germans and housekeepers alike can spend the same holidays in Mallorca, hence its nickname.
A Saarbrücken-Palma flight costs around 50/70 euros.
There will be every day from spring and all summer, like every year.
For the Mosellans, the passion of our neighbors for Mallorca can be a very good plan.