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Lufthansa’s A380s And A340-600s May Never Fly Again
Lufthansa has announced a third round of restructuring plans after the carrier saw a significant decline in bookings. (www.gatechecked.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
747-400s follow the same retirement schedule pre-conora (2025) and 748s remain until further notice.
Airbus should not have built the 380 and 340s (-300 and -600), Boeing took them to the cleaners with the 777 family as twin engines are far more fuel efficient.
Wow, sad...
Too bad as I flew SFO FRA and MUC many times on both the 380 and 340. I preferred the 340-600 with a seat layout that was pretty comfortable. Nice premium economy cabin but even in regular economy only 2 seats on the sides. I will be sorry to see them go but I am guessing that business flying with not return for at least a year and never return to pre Covid levels since many meetings can be done remotely. I would hope that airlines see this as a problem and opportunity to reconfigure their cabins to reduce the needed business class seats and enlarge a premium economy cabin that many leisure travelers will pay up for.
I’ve read that the 747-8 will be the only four-engine type that Lufthansa will continue to fly.
What happened to their A340-300s? I think those are flying still?
So did Boeing win the long race of quad jets. I mean Airbus came with the A380 to kill the 747 but seems the Boeing 747 is still living on. Maybe not as strong but no one is putting there 747-8’s in long term storage like everyone but Emirates is for the A380.
No mention yet...
No mention yet...
Fingers-crossed.