by Lufthansa Flyer | Feb 2, 2015 | Featured, History, Lufthansa |
39 years ago today, on February 2, 1976, Lufthansa welcomed its first ever Airbus aircraft when an Airbus A300 was delivered to the airline.
The A300 served as a short and medium-haul wide body aircraft on high density routes within Europe, North Africa, Russia, the Middle East, and even to the East Coast of the USA.
Lufthansa would ultimately operate 25 A300s (14 A300-600, 6 A300-B2 and 5 A300-B4 variants) over the course of 33 years, finally retiring the last A300 on July 1, 2009.
Lufthansa A300 in Paris (Courtesy of Christian Volpati / Wikimedia Commons)
Typical Seat Map
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 27, 2015 | Featured, History, Lufthansa |
January 27, 1994 marked the day that the first Airbus A321 joined Lufthansa’s fleet. Nicknamed ‘ Finkenwerder’, D-AIRA has been in service ever since and was the first of 63 A321s that would join the fleet over the last 21 years.
The initial order of 20 A321s was delivered between 1994 and 1998 with the last of the batch, D-AIRY, being in delivered on November 4, 1998. Since then, 43 additional A321s have joined the fleet and are all currently in service.
D-AIRA still in action 21 years after entering service……
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 20, 2015 | Featured, Industry News, Lufthansa |
At the 2015 Business Travel Awards ceremony held on January 19 at Grosvenor House in London, Lufthansa was awarded ‘Best Short Haul Airline’.
1200 guests attended the 20th edition of the Awards Ceremony where winners were chosen for a variety of travel related categories covering hospitality, transportation and travel service providers.
Winners were selected by a jury of travel buyers (corporate travel departments) and travel journalists. The criteria for each award involved product innovation, change management, execution, and delivery of product.
To see a list of all the winners from the Award Ceremony, please click here.
