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Lufthansa flying high after 25 years at Birmingham

Airport news / 1 April 2011 /

Lufthansa celebrated 25 years of flying from Birmingham Airport on 1st April as passenger figures for early 2011 show 33.6 per cent growth compared with the same period last year.

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Lufthansa voted best airline worldwide

Airport news / 20 January 2010 /

Lufthansa has been named Best Airline Worldwide in the much coveted Business Travel Awards 2010. (more…)

The A380 at Frankfurt Airport

Issue 1 2008, Past issues / 4 February 2008 /

Q: Frankfurt will be one of the first airports in the world to be served regularly by the A380. What has this meant to you in terms of preparations?

We will have fifteen home-based A380s with Lufthansa and some more airlines are expected to operate the A380 into FRA, so we knew that there would be several flights per day and not just one or two. Operations are expected to increase in the early years. We knew from an early stage that we would have to start preparations. As you know, Frankfurt Airport was not initially a code F airport already, so we had to plan and prepare very early. The airport was ready in 2005 and while many other airports could not handle the A380 at that time, we were in a position to accept the aircraft. We had an ‘Upper Deck Bridge’ at this time and we were well prepared for the complete operation on the ground . In the case of regular A380 operations, we knew that Lufthansa originally planned to operate from Frankfurt in 2007. We therefore decided to prepare very early to be ready. Another aspect of our preparations involved Airbus themselves inviting us to join different working groups to help with the changes at a very early stage of the project. This was a unique point, as the aircraft deliverer was working with the airports to co-develop concepts on how to handle this aircraft. (more…)