 The establishment of "Syndicato Condor" in Brazil served the airline's interests in South America where there were important German minorities at that time.The first East-West crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean (from Baldonnel Aerodrome in Ireland to Greenly Island, Canada) was made by the Luft Hansa pilot Hermann Köhl, Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld and the Irish pilot James Fitzmaurice using the Junkers W 33 aircraft "Bremen" in April 1928.The airline launched scheduled multi-leg flights to Tokyo.