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About Deutsche Lufthansa AG airline.

Amazing On 1 April 1955 Lufthansa won approval to start scheduled domestic flights linking Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Munich. International flights started on 15 May 1955, to London, Paris, and Madrid, followed by Super Constellation flights to New York City from 1 June of that year,


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Deutsche Lufthansa AG / Lufthansa German Airlines (German pronunciation:  commonly shortened to Lufthansa serves as the flag carrier of Germany. When combined with its subsidiaries, it stands as the second-largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried, after the ultra low-cost carrier Ryanair, largest in Europe and fourth largest in the world by revenue.

Amazing Deutsche Lufthansa AG

On 1 April 1955 Lufthansa won approval to start scheduled domestic flights, linking Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Munich. International flights started on 15 May 1955, to London, Paris, and Madrid, followed by Super Constellation flights to New York City from 1 June of that year,

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History

Lufthansa's first aircraft, a Convair 340 (type pictured), was delivered in August 1954.

Lufthansa traces its history to 1926 when Deutsche Luft Hansa A.G. (styled as Deutsche Lufthansa from 1933 onwards) was formed in Berlin. DLH, as it was known, was Germany's flag carrier until 1945 when all services were terminated following the defeat of Nazi Germany; it has since been demonstrated that Deutsche Luft Hansa relied on the use of forced labor and housed forced laborers on the site of Tempelhof airport. In an effort to create a new national airline, a company called Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf (Luftag), was founded in Cologne on 6 January 1953, with many of its staff having worked for the pre-war Lufthansa; this included Kurt Weigelt, a Nazi convicted of war crimes, who served on the board on the new Lufthansa, and Kurt Knipfer, a member of the Nazi party from 1929 who led Luft Hansa from 1933 to 1945.[

Operations

1960s: Introduction of jetliners

In 1960, Lufthansa joined the jet age with the Boeing 707. The image shows a 707 at Hamburg Airport in 1984, shortly before the type was retired.
A Lufthansa Boeing 727-100 approaching Heathrow Airport in 1978

In 1958 Lufthansa ordered four Boeing 707s and started jet flights from Frankfurt to New York City in March 1960. Boeing 720Bs were later bought to back up the 707 fleets. In February 1961 Far East routes were extended beyond Bangkok, Thailand, to Hong Kong and Tokyo. Lagos, Nigeria, and Johannesburg, South Africa were added in 1962.

Main fleet aircraft

Lufthansa Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation operating a transatlantic scheduled service from Hamburg to Montreal and Chicago in May 1956

Created in 1953


IATA ICAO Callsign
LH DLH LUFTHANSA
Founded 6 January 1953; 70 years ago[note 1]
Commenced operations 1 April 1955; 68 years ago
Hubs
Fleet size 274 (+169 orders)
Destinations 229
Parent company Lufthansa Group
Traded as
Headquarters Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Key people Carsten Spohr (Chairman & CEO)
Founders
Employees 109,509 (2022)
Website www.lufthansa.com

The first Deutsche Lufthansa AG flight took place in  1 April 1955


Convair CV-340Convair CV-440 10 1955 1968 One lost by accident as Lufthansa Flight 005.
Curtiss C-46 9 1964 1969 Leased cargo aircraft[]
Douglas DC-3 3 1955 1960
1 Chartered by Martinair
Douglas DC-4 1 1958 1959 Leased as cargo aircraft[]
Douglas DC-8-51 1 1965 1966 Leased from Trans International Airlines
Fokker F27 Friendship 1 Leased from Condor[]
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation 11 1955 1968 Also used in cargo configuration
One lost by accident as Lufthansa Flight 502.
Lockheed L-1649A Starliner 6 1957 1966
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 12 1974 1994
Vickers Viking 2 1956 1961 Leased as cargo aircraft
Vickers Viscount 11 1958 1971

A Lufthansa Lockheed L-1649A Starliner photographed in 1961.

A Lufthansa Boeing 737-200 photographed in 1985.


Current Aircraft Lufthansa Airline

As of September 2023, Lufthansa (excluding its subsidiaries Air Dolomiti, City Airlines, Discover Airlines, Eurowings and Lufthansa CityLine) operates the following aircraft:

Lufthansa mainline fleet
Aircraft In service Orders Passengers Notes
F C W Y Total Refs
Airbus A319-100 23 — — 24 — 102 138
Airbus A320-200 52 — — 28 — 140 168
Airbus A320neo 34 39 — 28 — 152 180 Worldwide launch customer.
Some aircraft on order allocated to group subsidiaries.
Airbus A321-100 20 — — 26 — 174 200 Launch customer.
Airbus A321-200 37 — — 26 — 174 200
Airbus A321neo 17 22 — 28 — 187 215
Airbus A330-300 10 — — 42 28 185 255
Airbus A340-300 17 — — 30 28 221 279 Largest operator of its type.
To be replaced by Airbus A350-900.
Airbus A340-600 10 — 8 56 28 189 281 Returned from long-term storage in 2022.
To be replaced by Airbus A350-1000.
Airbus A350-900 21 34 4 38 24 201 267 To be delivered from early 2024 with Lufthansa Allegris interior.
— 48 21 224 293 Deliveries since 2016.
30 26 262 318
30 24 241 295 Four aircraft taken over from Philippine Airlines, retaining their original configuration.
30 — 309 339 Two former South African Airways aircraft to be leased, retaining their original configuration.
Four former LATAM Brasil aircraft on order, retaining their original configuration.[31][32]
Airbus A350-1000 — 10 TBA Replacing Airbus A340-600.
Airbus A380-800 8 — 8 78 52 371 509 4 A380s have been reactivated from long-term storage.
Remaining other 4 will be returned to service in 2024.
Boeing 747-400 8 — — 67 32 272 371 To be replaced by the Boeing 777-9.
Boeing 747-8I 19 — 8 80 32 244 364 Largest operator of its type.
Includes D-ABYP, the 1,500th Boeing 747 built.
Boeing 777-9 — 20 TBA Deliveries delayed, currently scheduled to start from 2025.
To be replacing Boeing 747-400 and 6 Airbus A380-800.
Boeing 787-9 5 34 — 28 28 231 287 To be delivered from 2024 with Lufthansa Allegris interior.
26 21 247 294 Deliveries of overall 39 aircraft since August 2022.
Five taken over from a Hainan Airlines order, retaining their original interior configuration.
Five to be transferred to Austrian Airlines.
Total 288 159

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      • Role small passenger transport
        Manufacturer Junkers
        Designer Otto Reuter
        First flight June 25, 1919
        Introduction 1920
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  • Length: 9.59 m (31 ft 6 in)
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    • Height: 3.50 m (11 ft 6 in)
    • Wing area: 34.50 m2 (371.4 sq ft)
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    • Powerplant: 1 × Mercedes D.IIIa 6-cyl.water-cooled in-line piston engine, 118 kW (158 hp)
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      • F 13fe: 198 km/h (123 mph)
      • Cruise speed: 160 km/h 
      F 13fe: 170 km/h (106 mph)
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      • Service ceiling: 5,000 m 
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