Lufthansa

Lufthansa (Deutsche Lufthansa AG) is the largest German airline company, headquartered in Cologne. Their main base is at Frankfurt International Airport in Frankfurt am Main which is also Lufthansa's primary traffic hub. The company has developed a second hub at Munich's Franz Josef Strauß International Airport. In the future after the merging with the SWISS, the Zurich Airport will be also a main traffic hub.

Fleet

The Lufthansa fleet consists of the following aircraft (as per September 2005):

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• 18 Avro RJ85
• 20 CRJ-700
• 41 CRJ-100/200
• 12 Airbus A319-100
• 35 Airbus A320-200
• 26 Airbus A321-100
• 2 Airbus A330-200
• 9 Airbus A330-300 (further 1 on order)
• 13 Airbus A300-600
• 30 Airbus A340-300
• 10 Airbus A340-600 (further 7 on order)
• 19 MD-11F (Lufthansa Cargo only)
• 33 Boeing 737-300
• 28 Boeing 737-500
• 30 Boeing 747-400

Lufthansa has ordered 15 Airbus A380 aircraft. The first will be delivered before the end of 2007 and they are likely to be used on services to Asia and the USA (ref: Airliner World, March 2005).

Related Topics:
Airbus A380 - 2007

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Through its Lufthansa Berlin Stiftung, it operates three classic German aircraft as well:

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• 1 Junkers 52
• 1 Messerschmitt Me 108
• 1 Dornier 27