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Lufthansa plans to dispose of its entire fleet of ex-LGW DHC8 aircraft in 2021.
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Lufthansa to rebrand its planned long-haul leisure carrier from Ocean to Eurowings Discover, which begins operations with three A330s. From Brussels Airines?
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Apparently Lufthansa longiest flight ever, about to pass over Belgium:
flight LH-2574, with scientists, Hamburg-Mount Pleasant (Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas):
https://www.flightradar24.com/DLH2574/26b68767
(A350-900 D-AIXP)

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Passenger wrote: 31 Jan 2021, 21:41 Apparently Lufthansa longest flight ever, about to pass over Belgium:
flight LH-2574, with scientists, Hamburg-Mount Pleasant (Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas):
https://www.flightradar24.com/DLH2574/26b68767
(A350-900 D-AIXP)
https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/luft ... -on-board/
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Almost there but please little FIGAS, don't mess your landing and block the RWY at Mount Pleasant.
You're only 5 minutes ahead of Lufty and their diversion is, ... well non existant.

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https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/lufthansa-group/lufthansa/lufthansa-will-soon-depart-on-its-longest-passenger-flight-with-polar-explorers-on-board/post_id=404836 wrote:31 Jan 2021, 23:11 The Airbus A350-900 is currently stationed in Munich, where it is being prepared for the flight.
D-AIXP was in Frankfurt?
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/d-aixp

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PttU wrote: 02 Feb 2021, 19:36 ...The Airbus A350-900 is currently stationed in Munich, where it is being prepared for the flight.
D-AIXP was in Frankfurt?
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/d-aixp
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Seems this is also what FR24 pointed to, making MUC the heaviest origin-destination for MPN :

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For this week of course. Could be CRL or LGG next week ;)

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Lufthansa has terminated the services of 103 India-based flight attendants after they allegedly sought “job assurance” from the management while the airline had offered them leave without pay option for two years.
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Lufthansa and airBaltic are starting codeshare cooperation as of 28 March 2021, connecting at Munich, Riga, and Vilnius,

In other news, Lufthansa is in talks with three major plane makers about swapping some orders for larger aircraft to smaller long-distance models.
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Lufthansa's major shareholder and billionaire Heinz Herman Thiele has died suddenly at the age of 79.
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Lufthansa will begin flights from Frankfurt to Sarajevo starting 03 May 2021, after suspending its Munich-Sarajevo service.
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Lufthansa Cargo expects to add to its fleet a tenth B777F later in 2021, but the aircraft will come from the second-hand market.
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Lufthansa Cargo signed one of the highest-volume contracts in its comprehensive infrastructure programme, a new central high-rack storage system, at its Frankfurt hub.
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Lufthansa Cityline has retired its first CRJ900, MSN 15095, with another to follow soon, and five more by end-2021.
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Lufthansa second-largest shareholder, KB Holding, is selling more than half its 12% stake in the Group for around €360 million, three months after the death of family patriarch Heinz Hermann Thiele.
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Lufthansa is in talks with Sudan’s government over a possible role in restructuring Sudan Airways.
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Lufthansa Cargo is mulling the procurement of short and medium-haul freighters, namely the A321 or B737.
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sn26567 wrote: 17 Jun 2021, 16:15 Lufthansa Cargo is mulling the procurement of short and medium-haul freighters, namely the A321 or B737.
Seems like a perfect way of using unnecessary now older A321s.

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Lufthansa aims to make Ponta Delgada (Azores) part of its regular network.
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