by Lufthansa Flyer | Oct 1, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Thanks again for making the contest celebrating LufthansaFlyer.com’s first year such a success. After compiling several hundred entries from the four rounds of the contest, we have a “confirmed” winner!
Congratulations “BRANDON”!
Your entry (#420) was selected by Random.org’s Random Number Generator. Enjoy the miles and your upcoming travel with Lufthansa!!
Stayed tuned for an announcement later this week involving a fantastic contest being held by a fellow blogger…..Trust me, you’ll want to enter.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Sep 28, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Lufthansa announced today that their CloudStream product will be permanently taken off line on October 17. Users have until that date to log into their accounts and download their accumulated content before it is deleted.
For those unfamiliar with the platform, CloudStream was a “digital carry-on” application that allowed you to save content from the internet as well as share your findings with others. The “digital carry-on” would then store all of your downloaded content so that you can review it later during a wifi-enabled flight (on any airline) or where ever you would have access to the internet.
Basically it gave you the ability to create bookmarks to content that you could refer to at a later date and have all of them consolidated in one location. As part of the program Lufthansa would also make content recommendations to CloudStream users.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Sep 26, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Today in 1952, the government of post-war Germany voted to reinstate a national airline for Germany after suspension of passenger airline services during World War II. This initial step paved the “runway” for the creation of Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf or “LUFTAG” on January 6, 1953.
Following up on this approval, LUFTAG began to organize as an airline and started to build facilities in Cologne, create it’s structure and hire it’s employees. Also during this time in 1953, LUFTAG ordered 4 Lockheed 1049G Super Constellations (Super Connies) and four Convair 340s. The Convairs began joining the fleet in mid-1954 while the Super Connie’s began arriving in late 1958.
On August 6, 1954 LUFTAG formally changed it’s name to what we know today as Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft(AG) or “LH” for short!
On April 1, 1955 2 of Lufthansa’s new Convair 340’s (D-ACOH and D-ACEF) took to the skies and officially christened Lufthansa’s first regularly scheduled routes. To mark the inaugural routes, one of the Convairs flew Munich-Frankfurt-Cologne-Hamburg while the second Convair flew Hamburg-Dusseldorf-Frankfurt-Munich.
D-ACEF courtesy: Robin A. Walker
D-ACOH
A Super Constellation at Munich Airport's Besucherpark (Visitor Park)
