by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 2, 2017 | 777, Chicago, Featured, Route Announcements, Swiss |
SWISS has announced that they will introduce the 777 on several flights between Zurich and Chicago beginning June 1, 2017. Specifically, the 777 will be assigned to Flight LX008 and LX009 for 6 of the 7 weekly flights. Overall, SWISS will maintain 12 flights per week between ZRH and ORD.
Here is what service will look like beginning June 1:
LX006 and 007 will still fly between ZRH and ORD 5 times a week (not Wednesdays/Fridays). The flights will be operated with A330-300 aircraft.
LX008 and 009 will fly daily and will have the 777 on the route everyday except Tuesdays. The Tuesday flight will be operated by an A330-300.
The 777 is expected to be on LX008/009 until October 28, 2017. I expect that the Airbuses will come back for the winter due to demand decrease.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Dec 30, 2016 | A350, Featured, Lufthansa, Munich |
Lufthansa has announced that the A350 will be operating the following ‘training’ schedule:
The aircraft is schedule to leave Munich at 11:00a and fly to Ingolstadt, arriving at 11:55a. It will execute touch and goes until 2:40p and will arrive back at Munich at 3:35p.
Keep in mind that schedules can change with no notice, so ‘tune’ into @LufthansaNews on Twitter for any updates.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Dec 28, 2016 | A350, Featured, Lufthansa, Munich |
Ever since the first A350 joined the fleet last week, it has been on a whirlwind schedule with pilots flying it all around Germany in an effort to get their training flights completed. Until recently, LH has been publishing the schedule of these flights 2-3 days in advance but due to weather and short-notice changes, it will now announce the A350s schedule the day before. This is being done primarily for weather related issues as the airline doesn’t want ‘avgeeks’ trekking to airports in bad weather only to come away disappointed that the A350’s plans changed for the day.
As of right now, Lufthansa has only published the A350 target airports for tomorrow and times have yet to be confirmed. For December 28, the aircraft is scheduled to appear at Leipzig, Hannover, Stuttgart and Nuremberg. Typically the aircraft departs Munich by mid morning and is back to MUC by 4-5:00p.
LH has done a great job providing real time updates via their @LufthansaNews Twitter account. I suggest you follow this account so that you know exactly what is happening with the flights.
