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Lufthansa operates a mainline fleet consisting of Airbus narrow and widebody and Boeing widebody aircraft. The mainline fleet is composed of seven different aircraft families: the Airbus A320 and A320neo, Airbus A330, Airbus A340, Airbus A350, Airbus A380, Boeing 747 and Boeing 787.
Lufthansa's first aircraft, a Convair 340 (type pictured), was delivered in August 1954. Lufthansa traces its history to 1926 when Deutsche Luft Hansa was formed in Berlin by the merger of Deutscher Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr.
- History
- Operations and Subsidiaries
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- Accidents and Incidents
Recognizing the growing importance of the cargo business, Lufthansa established its cargo subsidiary in 1977 called German Cargo Services GmbH. Previously, cargo operations were executed in-house, under the Lufthansa Cargo name, when – in an effort to restructure the company – the cargo division was re-integrated into its parent, and split up into ...
As of 2011, all Lufthansa Cargo aircraft are based at Frankfurt Airport, the seventh busiest freight hub in the world, where the airline enjoys a strong co-operation with Fraport, the operator of the airport. Cargo facilities at the airport are divided into two places (Cargo City North and South), of which the first one is nearly exclusively used b...
Current fleet
As of December 2023[update], the Lufthansa Cargo fleet consists of the following aircraft:
Fleet development
The initial fleet of Lufthansa Cargo had previously belonged to German Cargo, and was expanded by cargo-converted former Lufthansa mainline Boeing 747-200s. From 1998, the airline began to gradually phase out all other aircraft types in favour of a fleet entirely consisting of the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (which Lufthansa received as freighter versions in 2001 after MD-11 production ended) version and its successor, the Boeing 777 freighter.In March 2011, the order of five Boeing 777F was anno...
Former fleet
Over the years, the following aircraft types were operated:
On 11 December 1978, the Lufthansa heisttook place. A group of criminals managed to get into the Lufthansa Cargo offices at JFK Airport in New York City. They threatened staff by pointing guns and...On 26 July 1979, a Boeing 707 freighter (registration D-ABUY) operating Flight 527crashed into a hilly slope shortly after take-off, killing all 3 crew-members onboard. The cause of the accident wa...Deutsche Luft Hansa A.G. (from 1933 styled as Deutsche Lufthansa and also known as Luft Hansa, Lufthansa, or DLH) was a German airline. It served as flag carrier of the country during the later years of the Weimar Republic and throughout Nazi Germany, when it had close links to the Nazi Party .
Fleet. Large, modern and environmentally compatible. The Lufthansa Group fleet comprises aircraft of almost every size. Throughout, state-of-the-art technology is used.
Lufthansa (IATA: LH / ICAO: DLH) is an airline headquartered in Cologne, Germany founded in 1953 currently operating a fleet of 323 aircraft with an average age of 13.73 years.
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Airbus A320-200. Airbus A321-100. Airbus A321-200. Airbus A330-300. Airbus A340-300. Avro RJ100 operated by Swiss Global Airlines. Categories: Lufthansa Passage. Gallery pages of aircraft.
