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Lufthansa to fly to Bangalore from September 1

German airline Lufthansa said on Tuesday it would start flights from Frankfurt to Bangalore from September 1 this year.

Lufthansa will use an Airbus A 340 aircraft for the three times a week flight.

"Bangalore is the fifth largest city in India, with a population of over six million. It is the centre of the country's information technology and aerospace industry," said an airline statement.

The Bangalore service is the result of bilateral air service talks between India and Germany held in February.

Lufthansa currently operates 15 flights a week between Germany and New Delhi, Bombay and Madras.

It has been in discussions with New Delhi since 1995 on ways of getting increased access to the Indian market in order to cash in on growing tourism and business ties between Germany and India.

The Lufthansa statement did not comment on the progress of talks on a code-share arrangement with Air India.

The Indian government had said after the bilateral talks in February that Air India and Lufthansa had reached a code-share agreement to permit Air India, which does not operate flights to Germany, to sell seats on Lufthansa's flights.

Lufthansa later said that the code-sharing had not yet been finalised and talks were still continuing.

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