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Star Alliance Route Announcements: June 15 – July 1, 2015

by Lufthansa Flyer | Jul 2, 2015 | Featured, Route Announcements, Star Alliance | 0 comments

AIR CHINA:

Beijing – Kuala Lumpur effective October 25 will BEGIN 4x/week service.

Beijing – Mumbai effective October 25 will BEGIN 4x/week service.

Beijing – Seoul effective July 1 is reduced from 3x/day to 1x/day.

Beijing – Sydney effective November 15 will increase from 7x/week to 11x/week.

Chengdu – Mumbai effective October 25 is CANCELLED.

Chengdu – Seoul start of 5x/week service has been delayed from July 1 to August 2.

Hangzhou – Seoul effective July 1 is reduced from 7x/week to 2x/week.

Hefei – Seoul effective July 1 is SUSPENDED until July 31.

Qingdao – Seoul effective July 1 is reduced from 2x/day to 1x/day.

Tianjin – Bangkok effective July 20 will BEGIN 1x/day service.

AIR INDIA:

Delhi – Tokyo (NRT) effective November 1 will increase from 3x/week to 4x/week.

ANA:

Tokyo (NRT) – Brussels effective October 25 will BEGIN 1x/day service.

ASIANA:

Seoul – Astana effective August 8 will BEGIN 1x/week service.

Seoul – Hiroshima between June 30 and July 28 is reduced from 5x/week to 4x/week.

Seoul – Matsuyama between June 30 and July 27 is SUSPENDED.

Seoul – Tokyo (HND) between July 20 and July 29 is SUSPENDED.

Seoul – Tokyo (NRT) between July 7 and July 23 is reduced from 4x/day to 3x/day.

Seoul – Toyama between July 3 and July 21 is SUSPENDED.

COPA:

Panama City – Belo Horizonte effective August 1 is reduced from 7x/week to 5x/week.

Panama City – Brasilia effective August 9 is reduced from 11x/week to 7x/week.

Panama City – Porto Alegre effective August 1 is reduced from 7x/week to 5x/week.

Panama City – Sao Paulo Guarulhos effective August 1 is reduced from 28x/week to 24x/week.

Panama City – Sao Paulo Viracopos effective August 1 is reduced from 7x/week to 4x/week.

LOT:

Warsaw – Athens effective March 2 will BEGIN 4x/week service.

Warsaw – Barcelona effective January 2 will BEGIN 4x/week service (1x/day beginning March 26).

Warsaw – Belgrade effective January 1 will BEGIN 4x/week service.

Warsaw – Beirut effective March 30 will BEGIN 3x/week service (5x/week beginning May 1).

Warsaw – Chisinau effective January 1 will BEGIN 4x/week service.

Warsaw – Cluj effective January 2 will BEGIN 4x/week service.

Warsaw – Dusseldorf effective will BEGIN 2x/day service.

Warsaw – Ljubljana effective March 2 will BEGIN 5x/week service (6x/week beginning March 26).

Warsaw – Nice effective March 30 will BEGIN 5x/week service (1x/day beginning May 3).

Warsaw – Tokyo (NRT) effective January 13 will BEGIN 3x/week service.

Warsaw – Venice effective January 23 will BEGIN 4x/week service (1x/day beginning March 26).

Warsaw – Zagreb effective January 1 will BEGIN 5x/week service.

Warsaw – Zurich effective January 1 will BEGIN 2x/day service.

LUFTHANSA:

Frankfurt – Kuala Lumpur – Jakarta effective October 25 is CANCELLED.

Frankfurt – Kuala Lumpur effective October 25 will BEGIN 5x/week service.

SAS:

Gothenburg – Brussels effective October 26 will BEGIN 3x/week service.

Gothenburg – Paris effective October 27 will BEGIN 3x/week service.

SHENZHEN:

Shenzhen – Phuket effective July 10 will BEGIN 1x/day service.

SINGAPORE:

Singapore – Christchurch effective between December 2 and February 1 will increase from 7x/week to 10x/week.

THAI:

Hong Kong – Seoul effective between July 5 and July 22 is reduced from 7x/week to 4x/week.

Taipei – Seoul effective between July 7 and July 31 is reduced from 7x/week to 5x/week.

TURKISH:

Istanbul (IST) – Khudzhand effective August 3 will BEGIN 2x/week service.

UNITED:

Chicago – Providenciales effective December 19 will BEGIN 1x/week service.

Denver – Liberia effective December 19 will BEGIN 1x/week service.

Denver – San Jose (Costa Rica) effective December 18 will BEGIN 1x/week service.

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New Eurowings Livery Unveiled On First A330

by Lufthansa Flyer | Jul 1, 2015 | Eurowings, Featured, Fleet Update | 0 comments

Lufthansa has unveiled the first Eurowings A330 (D-AXGA) in the new Eurowings livery this week. The plane had been flown to Taiwan where it was painted last week and is now enroute to LH Technik in Hamburg to have its cabin installed. For those of you in and near Hamburg, the aircraft is set to arrive at 19:00 tonight (July 1, 2015).

Eurowings’ newly painted A330…..photo courtesy of Lufthansa.

A second A330 is expected to be repainted and retrofit in the next 2 weeks.

Eurowings is set to launch their long haul service on November 15 when it starts flying from Cologne to a variety of destinations in the Carribean, Thailand, and Dubai. However, the 2 A330s that will be in the Eurowings fleet will fly routes within Europe beginning November 2 before transitioning to long haul service on the 15th.

LUFTHANSA Business Class Retrofit Update For July 2015

by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 30, 2015 | Business Class, Featured, Lufthansa | 1 comment

Each month LUFTHANSA updates the status of their Business Class retrofit progress across the long haul fleet. This month’s update confirms that 95 long-haul aircraft now feature the new Business Class cabin. That means that 5 additional aircraft now sport the new Business Class Cabin as compared to the June Update. This leaves only 12 long haul aircraft that need to be retrofitted.

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-AIKJ, D-AIKK, D-AIKM, D-AIKN, D-AIKO have all been retrofit by Lufthansa Technik.

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).

Airbus A340-600: D-AIHA, D-AIHB, D-AIHC, D-AIHD, D-AIHE, D-AIHF, D-AIHH, D-AIHI, D-AIHK, D-AIHL, D-AIHN, D-AIHQ, D-AIHR, D-AIHS, D-AIHV, D-AIHW, D-AIHX, D-AIHY, D-AIHZ (All 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.

Boeing 747-8i: All have the new Business Class.

Boeing 747-400: D-ABTK, D-ABTL, D-ABVO, D-ABVP, D-ABVR, D-ABVU, D-ABVW, D-ABVX, D-ABVY (Retrofit).

Another way to look at the progress is to see which aircraft still need to be retrofitted. Here is the list as of June 30, 2015:

A340-600: D-AI: HM, HO, HP, HT, HU

A340-300: D-AIGP

A330-300: D-AIKL

747-400: D-AB: TL, VM, VS, VT, VZ

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.