Lufthansa's seventh aircraft with the blue special anniversary livery, an Airbus A350-1000 registered D-AIFA, is scheduled to be transferred to Munich this fall.
AviationSource News•Len Varley15 Jul
Lufthansa's first A350-1000 has arrived with a special 100th anniversary livery, but how much paint does this livery use?
Technicians moved the landing gear lever during a maintenance test before the Frankfurt accident, which injured 23 people.
AVweb•Matt Ryan14 Jul
Lufthansa is preparing to welcome its first Airbus A350-1000, an aircraft that carries added significance beyond its size. …
AeroTime•Jean Carmela Lim14 JulLufthansa’s first Airbus A350-1000 has been unveiled in a special blue livery celebrating the airline’s 100th anniversary. The aircraft, registered D-AIFA and to be named “Deutschland”, is expected to join the airline’s Munich-based fleet this autumn after completing test flights and final acceptance. The A350-1000 will also mark a milestone for the Lufthansa Group as […]
Aviation24.be•André Orban14 Jul
Airline's largest A350 will enter service later this year with a four-class cabin and special centenary livery
Air Data News•Ricardo Meier14 JulLufthansa‘s special anniversary fleet will soon welcome another addition as the airline’s first Airbus A350-1000 has been painted in its centenary livery at Airbus’ Toulouse facility. The aircraft features a blue fuselage with a white XXL crane and the markings “1926 | 2026” and “100”. A total of 432 litres of blue paint and 246 […]
AviTrader•Heike Tamm14 JulLufthansa Cargo, WiseTech Global and IBS Software have worked together to implement IATA’s ONE Record data standard, successfully exchanging air cargo shipment…
Aviation Business News•Craig Waters14 JulWith the commissioning of a new Airbus H145 D3 Flight Training Device (FTD) Level 3, DRF Akademie is expanding its pilot training capabilities. DRF Akademie is among the first organizations to deploy the new system developed by Reiser Simulation and Training. The simulator is located at the Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) facility in Frankfurt, Germany.
Lufthansa’s Airbus A340-300 (D-AIGT) “Viersen” has celebrated a special milestone: when it operated flight LH405 from New York to Frankfurt on July 7th, it would have been collecting important data...
One Airbus A340-600 Has Already Been Upcycled
Lufthansa Cargo's mix of next-generation and current-generation engines highlights balancing long-term efficiency goals with immediate business needs.
A locking pin designed to prevent a Boeing 787’s nose landing gear from retracting remained inside its storage…
AeroTime•Stephen Pope10 Jul
The missing downlock pin in a Lufthansa Boeing 787-9's nose landing gear led to a dramatic collapse at Frankfurt Airport, injuring several.
Several weeks ago, I covered a bizarre incident at Frankfurt Airport (FRA), where a Lufthansa Dreamliner had a gear collapse at its gate, causing some injuries. Suffice it to say, seeing a plane’s gear collapse at a gate is mighty unusual, and shouldn’t happen. A report has now revealed what happened… it’s exactly what I suspected.
One Mile at a Time•Ben Schlappig9 JulFifteen years ago on July 8, 2011, Lufthansa’s Airbus A340-300 with the registration “D-AIGT” flew from Frankfurt (FRA) to Lagos (LOS) not just to transport passengers, but with its added mission to collect important data for climate research. This marked a world’s-first for long-term observation of the Earth’s atmosphere using scheduled flights. IAGOS Project The […]
Travel Radar•Kate Angel8 Jul
Lufthansa’s Airbus A340-300 “Viersen” (D-AIGT) has marked 15 years of collecting vital climate data during regular passenger flights as part of the European IAGOS research program.
AviationSource News•Len Varley8 Jul
Despite being the word's busiest airport by passenger traffic, Atlanta rarely handles superjumbos.
A strong signal for more sustainable aviation: As part of its strategy to reduce the climate impact of business travel, Deutsche Bank is investing in the deployment of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in air transport with the Lufthansa Group. The jointly agreed volume of approximately 1,600 metric tonnes of SAF enables an estimated emissions saving of around 5,500 metric tonnes of CO₂.
AviationNews – Boeing has successfully completed a three-and-a-half-hour maiden test flight of Lufthansa’s very first Boeing 777-9, fully equipped with the definitive Allegris passenger cabin...