The families of victims are being flown to the town close to the site where the Germanwings flight crashed yesterday.
Grieving relatives are expected to start arriving in Seyne-Les-Alpes in the French Alps this morning.
The town’s mayor said local families are opening their homes as places to stay as there is a shortage of accommodation.
Airline and government officials have been visiting the crash site and Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said the experience was ‘harrowing’.
“Our thoughts are with the relatives of the victims,” he said.
“Germanwings and Lufthansa will do everything in our power to help in an uncomplicated and timely manner.
“We will enable the relatives to grieve on site as soon as possible.”
Germanwings thanked other companies for their ‘enormous solidarity and sympathy’ and for their support in flying the grieving families and the airline’s staff to the crash site and to Dusseldorf and Barcelona to meet with the relatives back home.
“We are a very small company and we are a family of colleagues. We are sharing the grief and are looking after the relatives of the passengers and crew.”
