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On the way home, it is fully loaded with around 30 tons of special cargo: protective equipment and medical supply. To fit in as much as possible, freight was securely stowed on the seats and in the overhead bins - in addition to the belly. (2/2)
#WeAreInThisTogether
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First flights from summer 2023: Lufthansa reactivates
@Airbus
A380 due to the steep rise in customer demand. 🎉 How many A380s will take off again and which destinations will be served is still to be decided. ✈️
#WeAreLufthansa
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We are sending a
@BoeingAirplanes
B777 Freighter to Doncaster Sheffield
@DSA_Airport
. On board: 80 tons of fruits and vegetables.
@Lufthansa_Cargo
is currently examining whether additional special cargo flights can be offered during the next days. Watch
#LH8352
on
@flightradar24
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Big bird, big love! ✈️ ❤️ Here’s some footage of the landing of our 1st reactivated
#A380
! Who has seen the arrival
@Airport_Fra
of our “Mike-Kilo”? Tag us! Welcome back, “Dusseldorf”! 🤩
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After 55 years of production, the last 747 left the
@BoeingAirplanes
factory in
#Everett
this morning. Lufthansa has always been part of the development of the 747, we had over 80
#Jumbos
in our fleet throughout the time! We are proud to continue to fly the Queen of the Skies! 👑
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Setting an example for Europe: As of now, our A320 D-AIZG has a new special livery:
#SayYesToEurope
. Four weeks before the European elections Lufthansa would like to promote a strong Europe and the idea of the European Union.
#planespotting
#avgeek
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What a beauty! 🤩
Have a look at our first entirely painted
@Boeing
787! Doesn’t it look good painted in our Lufthansa livery? 💙
#WeAreLufthansa
#Boeing787
#Dreamliner
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Lufthansa will not use Russian airspace for the next seven days due to the current and emerging regulatory situation. Flights to Russia will be suspended during this period. We continue to monitor the situation closely and are in close exchange with the authorities.
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All doors closed and ready for takeoff - Falkland Islands here we come! “X-Ray Papa” goes off on
#LHLongestFlight
with 13.700 KM 🛫 Be sure to follow her route on
@Flightradar24
:
#LH2574
.
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Under the special flight number LH9922, the first reactivated A380 D-AIMK departed Frankfurt in the early hours of this morning for
@LHTechnik
Manila site. Here it is being made fit to take off again as a regular passenger aircraft in the summer.
#Airbus
#A380
#Lufthansa
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Ready for the first pictures of our second
@Boeing
787, the "Frankfurt am Main"? 📸
We got you covered!
Check out the first pictures of our freshly painted D-ABPD 🖌, who will be joining our fleet in the next months.
#787
#dreamliner
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Our crew of flight
#LH2222
to Toulouse is ready to welcome their guests on
#Twosday
!
#WeAreLufthansaGroup
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Premiere in our
#A380
cockpit: First Lufthansa A380 flight with 3 female pilots coming back from their HKG tour this morning.
#HappyFriday
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Today a new aircraft joined our fleet. Here are some impressions of our first
@boeingairplanes
787-9, registered D-ABPA, from the arrival at
@Airport_FRA
✈️👋
#LHB787
#LH9921
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Dear
#spotters
, just in case you spend this evening around
@Airport_FRA
: don't miss the first regular take-off of our "Yankee-Tango" after her deep storage. Welcome her back! 👀📸✈️ She will leave to GRU tonight 21:40 LT. Follow her
@flightradar24
: LH506.
#planespotting
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Spotter alert ▶️ Our A350 (registration D-AIXP) will be taking off tomorrow with a brand new "Lufthansa & You" livery🛫
#TogetherAgain
🌎 Follow LH456 from
@airport_FRA
to
@flyLAXairport
to catch a glimpse of this beauty!
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Grab your cameras, dear
#planespotter
! 📷 Incoming big bird! ✈️ Today, our first
#A380
reactivated by
@TarmacAerosave
will come back from
#Teruel
to
@Airport_FRA
. Track Mike-Kilo
@flightradar24
LH9921. ETA: 19.16 LT Frankfurt.
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Thursday morning, it is raining and time to say goodbye 🛫 👋 : Seven
#A380
aircraft are currently being prepared for deep storage in Teruel, Spain. After more than 3,600 flights with more than 36,000 flights hours, we are sad to see our “Mike Juliet” leave.
@AirbusPress
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#HierKommtDieMaus
- aber nicht allein! Jahrelang war die 🐭 auf der D-AIRY, jetzt bringt sie den kleinen 🐘 mit. Frisch lackiert als LH9923 aus Malta, landet sie 12.40h
@MUC_Airport
mit ihrem blauen Freund. 16.30h geht's als LH2056 nach TXL. 💙
@DieMaus
@flightradar24
#spotter
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This week, baby Nikolai was born at 49° N, 21° W, flight level 390. Interested in more infos? Here you go.
#LH543
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3, 2, 1... Hello! 👋 Welcome
@Airport_FRA
! We are so excited to see you, dear
#777X
!
@BoeingAirplanes
@BoeingDACH
#LH777X
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Special mission for our „Kilo-India“ to Shanghai and back: normally the A330 flies mainly passengers. This one was an all-cargo plane. To get humanitarian goods where they are most needed at the moment. (1/2)
#WeAreInThisTogether
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@NilanjanS
@lufthansa
Our flight from Frankfurt to Delhi departed later than originally planned due to a delayed inbound flight and an aircraft change. Best regards
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Look, who's back in town! 👀 Our longest ✈️ will leave
@Airport_FRA
to
#Washington
🇺🇸 for the first time after its long storage. If you want to take a peek, follow our A346
@flightradar24
:
#LH418
. ETD: 12:25 h.
#planespotting
#spotter
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5 years ago, the first
#A320neo
took off with passengers. 🎉 We love their fuel-efficiency and that they produce less CO2 & less noise. By now we own 29 A320neos & 6 A321neos - more to come! We'd like to share some of our best memories. It's been a ride!
@airbus
@prattandwhitney
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Our
@Airbus
#A350
is soon on the way to its special mission
#LHLongestFlight
. The “Braunschweig” is departing now from
@Airport_FRA
and will arrive 1 hour later in
@HamburgAirport
before flying to the Falkland Islands. 👉 Follow her on
@Flightradar24
:
#LH9924
.
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Happy birthday, dear
#A320neo
! 🎂 You've been enriching our fleet for 5 years: on Jan 20, 2016,
@airbus
delivered the first neo to us. You're efficient & quiet, you have sharklets, the Zorro mask & you are our "Hauptstadtflieger". We're glad you exist!
#spotter
@prattandwhitney
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What a day 🤩! The
@BoeingAirplanes
#777X
presented itself to selected guests today at the Lufthansa maintenance hangar at
@Airport_FRA
. We are in love! On Sunday, the 777-9 will return to Seattle.
@BoeingDACH
#LH777X
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She‘s here!! Our first
@Airbus
#A380
#flagship
in the new livery has arrived at
@MUC_airport
🛬
#ExploreTheNew
#Lufthansa
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Lufthansa Group purchases further state-of-the-art long-haul aircraft: 7x Boeing 787-9, 7x Boeing 777-8F, 3x Boeing 777F. Delivery schedule of already ordered 787-9s accelerated. More info on
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Twinkle, twinkle five star, Yankee Mike we know how pretty you are 🎶 😍
@BoeingAirplanes
#B747
#LH5Star
@Airport_FRA
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Lufthansa strengthens its premium hub
@MUC_Airport
by reactivation of five
@Airbus
A340-600 offering First Class
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Even if
#oktoberfest2020
can't take place as usual, one thing remains the same: the Lufthansa "Trachtencrew"! 🍻 🥨 Today, the first crews in traditional costume took off
@MUC_Airport
for EWR, JTR and MAN. You are a fan? Follow
#LH412
@flightradar24
! Do you like the tradition?
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Pssst, shall we tell you a secret? The body of our first future 777-9 is joined! Have a look at this beauty – we can’t wait until summer 2020! Can you already guess what she will look like?
#avgeek
#777X
#LH777x9
@BoeingAirplanes
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Touchdown of
#LHLongestFlight
🛬!
#LH2574
just landed in Mount Pleasant, local time 9:00 h after 7.339 nautical miles and 15:36 hours of flight. Well done! Good luck with the Antarctic expedition
@AWI_Media
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Welcome Home, D-ABPC ✈️
This morning at 7:34 am, we welcomed our third
@BoeingAirplanes
787 at its future homebase
@Airport_FRA
. The
#Dreamliner
is named after the city of „Kiel“ in northern Germany! We wish Papa-Charlie always safe flights and happy landings! 💙
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Bye Bye 👋, dear A380-800. Here are some impressions of our "Mike-Delta" on her way to Teruel, Spain - her last flight 🛫 for a while since she will be put into deep storage. We will miss you! ❤️
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Our
#QueenOfTheSkies
has just landed at
#PalmaDeMallorca
🛬 The Yankee-Tango looks very shiny in her special retro livery in the Spanish sun ☀️ There are three more flights from
@Airport_FRA
with the 747-8 to Mallorca in the upcoming weeks.
#planespotting
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Time to say good-bye: "Victor-Papa" left Enschede Airport yesterday afternoon. Currently she's waiting for her next flight from
@Airport_FRA
as LH9872 on her long final journey to MHV. Make sure to say good-bye! 👋🛫💙💛
@flightradar24
#planespotting
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Special visitor for a special night - after 30 years of operations to
#TXL
airport, we are saying goodbye tonight with our
#LHA350
on
#LH1955
#DankeTXL
@flightradar24
@berlinairport
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Passenger jets as freighter: Every day, two
#LHA350
land
@MUC_Airport
with protective equipment. Lufthansa uses a total of four Airbus A350 passenger aircraft between Munich and Beijing & Shanghai to transport urgently needed protective masks.
#WeAreInThisTogether
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Isn't she a beauty? 😍 Meet our D-AINZ! 👀✈️💙 Our first
@Airbus
#A320neo
with these iconic cockpit windows will be based
@MUC_Airport
. Following today's delivery from Airbus, the aircraft is currently in Berlin-SXF for two weeks to install some additional features.
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LH341 left Mombasa
@KenyaAirports
for Frankfurt today - on board the
#A340
: German Tourists on the way home. Because Mombasa isn't a regular LH destination, the station manager drove 7h from Nairobi to handle this flight. 📸: Y. Aplogan
#WeAreInThisTogether
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Finally the time has come! The first
@Boeingairplanes
787 of Lufthansa just landed at 11:00 am at
@Frankfurtairport
! Welcome home! ✈️
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Happy birthday, liebe 🐭! Seit 1999 verzierst du eine Lufthansa A321. Schon öfter warst du zu Gast und hast dir Phänomene aus der Fliegerei erklären lassen. Seit 2 Jahren turnst du mit dem kleinen blauen 🐘 auf der "Flensburg". Heute wirst du 50. Wir gratulieren! 🎉
#MitDerMaus
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New aircraft for the German government:
@LHTechnik
has officially handed over the first new
@Airbus
A350 to
@akk
,
@Team_Luftwaffe
&
@BaainBw
. Two more A350 will follow until 2022. The aircraft is scheduled to be taken over in October after further test flights and certification.
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Lufthansa will temporarily decommission the entire Airbus A340-600 fleet. Three aircraft of this type have already been parked at Teruel, northeastern Spain.
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Countdown: 2 days left for
#LHLongestFlight
! Sunday 9:30pm LH2574 is going to depart from
@HamburgAirport
to the Falkland Islands. 🛫 13.700 KM and about 15 hours to fly with
@airbus
#A350
👉
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What a sad sight! Around 700 of Lufthansa Group's 763 aircraft will be temporarily parked. Some of them
@Airport_FRA
. The north-west runway has been closed for that purpose as of today. More to follow, also
@MUC_Airport
& Berlin.
#WeAreInThisTogether
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Touch down!🛬 Our future family member, the
@BoeingAirplanes
#LH787
"Berlin" has arrived at
@flySFO
. Enjoy these beautiful sunny pics!😍
#WeAreLufthansa
#Boeing
#Dreamliner
#BoeingBerlinBeautiful
#flysfo
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A very warm welcome to "November Yankee"! ✈️😍 The D-AINY just landed in SXF! Check her flight LH9921
@flightradar24
. The fancy cockpit windows look really good on the
@Airbus
A320neo, don't you think? 😎
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Welcome Home Mike-Mike: One week after the first A380 departed for Manila, its space in Frankfurt was filled by the second one with registration D-AIMM. It landed in Frankfurt from Teruel at 3:25 pm and will undergo some technical checks before following the D-AIMK to Manila✈️
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What a beauty! ✈️ This morning our second
@Boeing
787-9 arrived
@Airport_FRA
! Welcome to the Lufthansa family D-ABPD!
#Dreamliner
#Lufthansa
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Dear
#spotters
👀 ✈️ hurry up to
@Airport_FRA
if you want to see the
#777X
! Landing: 14h local time, expected on 25 Center (both may change). Flight number is BOE001. Follow her
@flightradar24
! Let's celebrate the rare sight 🙌
@BoeingAirplanes
#LH777X
#planespotting
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This week we want to give insights to our climate policy position. Our path to carbon-neutral flight operations is ambitious, though possible: We invest more than €3 billion a year in new, fuel-efficient aircraft like the
@Airbus
A350-900.
#lessweight
#lessfuel
#lessCO2
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This week the third
@BoeingAirplanes
#777X
took off for its maiden flight. 🎉 Do you know what is special about this airplane? We're really looking forward to this specific aircraft joining Lufthansa's fleet later on. Meanwhile we do enjoy these photos! How about you? 🤩✈️💙
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Good-bye, for now, good boy. Our “Mike-Bravo“ is the 7th and last A380 to be temporarily parked in Teruel. To those who want to follow him
@flightradar24
check out LH9924, departure 8:00 LT
@Airport_FRA
. Have you spotted him? ✈️👀
#planespotting
#WeAreInThisTogether
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Time to color the air!🌈
Welcome our new special livery: Lovehansa. ❤️ On the occasion of
#PrideMonth
, the
#Airbus
A320neo D-AINY will fly with a special rainbow design for the next six months. Today the D-AINY will take off to Billund.
#lovehansa
#WeAreLufthansa
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Happy 50th birthday
#Jumbo
Jet! 🎂🎉🛫 The
@BoeingAirplanes
747-100 took off on its maiden flight on Feb 9th, 1969. First in Europe
#Lufthansa
welcomed its
#B747
registration "D-ABYA" and
#Boeing
production no.12 on Mar 9th, 1970.
#QueenOfTheSkies
#WhyILoveThe747
👑✈️❤️
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A new airplane for our fleet 🛬: Yesterday we picked up our 11th
#A320neo
from
@Airbus
- the first one in the new
#Lufthansa
livery. After remaining work in SXF, it will fly from
@Airport_FRA
. Less noise. Less fuel. Less CO2.
#ExploreTheNew
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#Jumbo
turns 50 tomorrow! 🎂 The world’s first "smiling"
@BoeingAirplanes
was the freighter
#Boeing
747-230F, taken on by
#Lufthansa
in 1972. Nickname: "Beetle swallower", as it had space for 72
@VW
Beetles.
#QueenOfTheSkies
#WhyILoveThe747
🙂✈️🚗
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What a warm welcome for our
@Airbus
#LHA350
arriving from MPN/Falkland Islands. With around 7.257 NM it has been the flight with the longest distance ever landed at
@MUC_Airport
🛬🏅
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Einsatz voraussichtlich ab Sommer 2023: Lufthansa reaktiviert
@Airbus
#A380
aufgrund stark gestiegener Nachfrage. 🎉 Wie viele A380 wieder abheben und welche Ziele bedient werden, wird noch entschieden.✈️
#WeAreLufthansa
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Our
#Lufthansa
crew who flew all the way back from
@CHC_Airport
is „happy to help people see their families again“. It means a lot to us to bring people back home during these challenging times.
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The German Aviation Authorities (Luftfahrtbundesamt) confirmed today, that they share our risk assessment, that tracking devices with very low battery and transmission power in checked luggage do not pose a safety risk. With that these devices are allowed on Lufthansa flights.
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Comeback of our queen! 👸 ✈️ Our "Yankee-Alpha" is on her way to
@Airport_FRA
, completing mandatory flight checks after reactivation. She spent the last 6 months in deep storage in HAM. Check LH9919
@flightradar24
& welcome her back! First take off: June 6th, to
#Nanjing
.
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Many asked to share flight numbers of special flights. Here you go: Our retro crane is scheduled as LH343 from MNL to FRA on MAR28 LT. Another 744 leaves AKL as LH345 on MAR28 LT via Haneda to
@Airport_FRA
. Changes can occur at short notice.
@flightradar24
#WeAreInThisTogether
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Touchdown
#LHLongestFlight
🛬!
#LH2574
ist um 13 Uhr (9:00 h Ortszeit) nach 13.592 km und 15:36 Stunden Flugzeit in Mount Pleasant gelandet.Viel Glück bei der Antarktis-Expedition
@AWI_Media
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Lufthansa Group buys four more
@Airbus
A350-900. This makes Lufthansa the third-largest A350 customer worldwide ➡️
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Here we go again
@MUC_Airport
✈️We are so exited: Our
#LHA350
will fly at 12:05 today to the West Coast again
@flyLAXairport
🤩☀️
@flightradar24
. More pictures to come from LH452.
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Today is an excellent day to fly on our famous ✨LH2222 to Toulouse✨. Happy Twosday!
#palindromeday
#palindromedate
#palindromtag
#twosday
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Dear
#spotter
, if you want to say good-bye 👋 to our ❤️ Victor-Romeo, here's her last flight schedule (changes may occur, check
@flightradar24
): 20.1. LDE-FRA as LH9923. 21.1. FRA-LAX as LH9922. 22.1. LAX-MHV as LH9923. We honour her with this spectacular pic of a
#B744
. 📸✈️
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... and this was the very first take-off of the
#777X
. What a beauty!😍 By now she‘s already landed. Congratulations
@Boeing
!
@Boeingairplanes
🎉
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Time for good news 🤩: It has been decided that two more A380 will be reactivated between 2024 and 2025 - this means our customers will enjoy a total of eight A380 operating from our Munich hub as of 2025! ✈️
#airbus
#a380
#wearelufthansa
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Time flies! 🕰️✈️The history of Airbus began exactly 50 years ago with the development of the
#A300
. Lufthansa's first
#A300
was delivered on February 2, 1976 with the registration D-AIAA and was thus the first Airbus ever at Lufthansa! Happy 50th,
@AirbusPRESS
!🎉
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A repatriation program means many new airports, new routes, tough timeframe. Ever wondered, how to complete organizing tasks in 72 hours that normally take months? Karan Singh from the
#Lufthansa
Group explains. Check it out:
@flightradar24
#avtalk
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We're so excited! 😍 The first carbon fiber spars gave the starting signal for production of the first Lufthansa
#Boeing
777-9, which will be a test plane before it joins the LH fleet in 2021.
@boeingairplanes
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Today's Lufthansa flight LH1856 from
@MUC_Airport
to Malpensa, Italy, arrived with exceptional cargo: 1500 medical suits donated by China to Italy to support the current
#Coronavirus
emergency.
#WeAreInThisTogether
@Flightradar24
@MiAirports
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Did you know? With a wingspan of 71.8 m the 777-9 would no longer find a suitable parking position at every airport. However, 3.5 m of the wings can be folded up so it can be parked like any 777.
#WingWednesday
#777X
#LH777X
@BoeingAirplanes
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Spotted in Toulouse: our A350-900 named "Dortmund" in
#Lufthansa
's new livery. 👀 It will be transferred from
@Airbus
to
@MUC_Airport
on May 5th and will take off into the world on May 11th. We can't wait! 🛫
#WelcomeToTheFamily
#LHA350
#avgeek
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Hola Mallorca! 🇪🇸 Our first 747-8
#QueenOfTheSkies
flight from
@Airport_FRA
to
#PalmaDeMallorca
departs today at 10:20 a.m. Make sure to follow D-ABYT
@Flightradar24
#LH1152
#planespotting
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Hello, Juliet-Delta, 👋 we are happy to welcome you to our fleet! Our youngest A320neo-family member already left for
#Berlin
where she will get her final touch. Soon, our D-AIJD will be ready for take-off, all shiny and new! 😎 💙🛫
@airbuspress
#A320neo
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Welcome to
@EWRairport
! 🇺🇸🗽
Our
@BoeingAirplanes
Dreamliner touched down at EWR today 4pm LT for the first time and was welcomed with a water fountain!
#hellopapaalpha
#dreamliner
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Time to say goodbye! Our last
#B747
repatriation flight from
@CHC_Airport
was a stirring event we captured with our cameras. We’ll miss the great people from Christchurch and New Zealand - stay strong or, as the Maori say: Kia Kaha!
#WeAreInThisTogether
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We're doing our best so that everyone can be at home with their loved ones. To this day, Lufthansa Group has flown almost 48,000 passengers on 262 special flights back home. 46 additional flights in preparation.
#WeAreInThisTogether
@eurowings
@FlySWISS
@_austrian
@FlyingBrussels
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The biggest commercial plane: Our
#A380
is ready to welcome you at the
#AviationDay
at
@Airport_FRA
.
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Eye-catcher from 2020: an exciting feature of the
#777X
is the wingspan, the largest on a commercial jet.
@BoeingDACH
#LH777X
#WingWednesday
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For the first time ever our
@Airbus
#A350
arrived in
@DXB
🇦🇪 after commencing a new connection from
@MUC_Airport
✈️ Flights will be offered three times a week just in time for the
#Expo2020
#TogetherAgain
#LufthansaAndYou
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The time has come. After a three-year break and many months of reactivation, the largest passenger aircraft is once again ready for service. In a few minutes, the first A380 D-AIMK with flight number LH424 takes off for its maiden flight from
@MUC_Airport
to Boston.🇺🇸
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Have a great flight to the Falkland Islands and a happy landing in about 15hours 👋
#LHLongestFlight
- We are looking forward to welcoming back the
@Airbus
A350 “Braunschweig“
@MUC_Airport
on 4 Feb 2pm.
#LH2574
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