Each month LUFTHANSA updates the status of their Business Class retrofit progress across the long haul fleet. This month’s update confirms that 91 long-haul aircraft now feature the new Business Class cabin. That means that 8 additional aircraft now sport the new Business Class Cabin as compared to the May Update.
Here is the breakdown by Aircraft type and then by specific aircraft registration:
The aircraft registration codes that are highlighted in green represent the newly retrofitted aircraft added to the report for this month.
Airbus A330: D-AIKP, D-AIKQ, D-AIKR, D-AIKS (These 4 planes were line-fit meaning that they were delivered by Airbus with the seats installed). D-AIKA, D-AIKB, D-AIKC, D-AIKD, D-AIKE, D-AIKF, D-AIKG, D-AIKH, D-AIKI, D-AIKK, D-AIKM, D-AIKN, D-AIKO have all been retrofit by Lufthansa Technik. 90% of the A330 fleet has been retrofit.
Airbus A340-300: D-AIGM, D-AIGS, D-AIGO, D-AIGV, D-AIGT, D-AIGN, D-AIFE, D-AIGZ, D-AIFC, D-AIGX, D-AIGU, D-AIGL, D-AIFA, D-AIFD, D-AIFF, D-AIGW, D-AIGY (All Retrofit). 100% of the A340 fleet has been retrofit.
Airbus A340-600: D-AIHB, D-AIHC, D-AIHD, D-AIHE, D-AIHF, D-AIHK, D-AIHL, D-AIHN, D-AIHQ, D-AIHR, D-AIHS, D-AIHV, D-AIHW, D-AIHX, D-AIHY, D-AIHZ (All Retrofit). 67% of the A340-600 fleet has been retrofit.
Airbus A380: D-AIMB, D-AIMC, D-AIMD, D-AIME, D-AIMF, D-AIMG, D-AIMH, D-AIMI, D-AIMJ, D-AIMK, D-AIML, D-AIMM, D-AIMN. MK, ML, MM, and MN were line fit while all other A380s were retrofitted. 93% of the A380 fleet has be retrofit, only D-AIMA remains.
Boeing 747-8i: D-ABYU joined the fleet during April. All 19 aircraft have the new Business Class.
Boeing 747-400: D-ABTK, D-ABTL, D-ABVO, D-ABVP, D-ABVU, D-ABVW, D-ABVX, D-ABVY (Retrofit). 47% of the 747-400 fleet has been retrofit.
If you have upcoming Business Class travel on Lufthansa, you can use this tool to determine if your flight will have an aircraft equipped with the new Business Class.
D-ABTL(744) went to retrofit in HAM just a week ago. I doubt it has been done already??
Their reports are based when an aircraft goes in for retrofit, so it makes sense that TL is on the list for the 744s since the next time it flies it will be with the new biz seat.
If that´s the case, what about VR, VT and VZ then? They are all currently in retrofit, but none of them are on the list…
It looks like they jumped the gun on TL. I know in the past, there are published retrofit schedules that are used internally as approximate dates for retrofit work. It looks like someone must have used the estimated date for TL as the actual date. Regardless, I asked for clarification so I should hear back in a day or so.
Cool! We’ll be on one of the newer ones! Thanks!
Useful info. Sadly, I think Seattle will continue to be punished by LH using their old unrefitted J seats. They’ll probably keep it as a flying museum like the JU52. Unbelievable considering the enormous amount of wealthy flyers in that market.
The tool seems to indicate that the Seattle flight does have the latest business class now..
LH did not accurately update their last biz class update. 2-3 744s were still flying around with Old Biz. that should be remedied by now.
thank you! As slow as the retrofit is, it’s super-useful to get these updates! I’m assuming that the not-retrofitted A330 and A380 are used on lower-profile, lower-yield routes at this point?
I thought LH had way more 747-400 than that – have some been retired?
yes, a few 744s have been ‘retired’