Aircraft Replacements (update 01.06.2018) Air Canada Boeing 787-9 will be replaced by Boeing 777-200LR from 01.05.2018 on daily Calgary – Frankfurt and Toronto – Frankfurt route Air China four weekly Boeing 747-8I service (x246) on Beijing – Frankfurt CA931/932; days 246 B773 operation Azores Airlines […]
After nearly 10 years of work, Lufthansa wants to shut down the „Starliner Project“, a complete restore of a 1957-build Lockheed L.1649 „Star Liner“ at Auburn Airport (Maine). The airliner is about 85% completed, the structure and engines are overhauled, when Lufthansa in March 2018 […]
update 05.03.2018 Condor again in Summer season 2018 will operate leased airBaltic Boeing 737 from Frankfurt from 28.04.2018 on following routes: Frankfurt – Dubrovnik eff 28APR18 1 weekly Frankfurt – Naples eff 28APR18 1 weekly Frankfurt – Split eff 29APR18 1 weekly Frankfurt – Zakynthos […]
Update 05.04.2018 From 28.10.2018 on Lufthansa will replace its CityLine A340-300* on Frankfurt – Tampa by its own A340-300 (capacity increase). With beginning of the Summer schedule on 25.03.2018, all of the Frankfurt – Verona flights will be transferred to Air Dolomiti, which will […]
Lufthansa on 07.02.2018 officially introduced its new color design. The new color design shows a complete white fuselage, a reworked title „Lufthansa“ and the rear section in dark blue. After being two weeks in service, blue turned out to be rather black on days with […]
Boeing 787 service to Frankfurt started on 21 January 2012, when launch customer ANA All Nippon Airways introduced the Dreamliner on its first commercial Boeing 787 long-haul operation from Tokyo. Next carrier to follow was Ethiopian Airlines with the first landing of ET-AOQ on 06.09.2012, […]
After the prototype’s first flight on 14.06.2013 (MSN001 / F-WWXB), another four test examples were build in 2013/2014. Frankfurt International Airport got in contact with the Airbus A350-941 on 25 July 2014, when F-WWYB (MSN005) came from Iqaluit (Canada, Baffin Island) and made the types […]
Today’s FRAPORT 2017 traffic figures press release shows Frankfurt Airport (FRA) closing year 2017 with 6.1 percent growth. More than 64.5 million passengers traveled through Germany’s largest aviation hub, while aircraft movements grew by 2.7 percent to 475,537 takeoffs and landings compared with 462.885 movements […]
Since 04.12.2017 Boeing 747-8 D-ABYM and Airbus A320 D-AIZX are underway in the new „Five Star“ look. Both aircraft are Frankfurt based, flights of both aircraft can be found here Frankfurt Live Flight Schedule (external link) Get details and background of „Five Star“ from Lufthansa […]
On 28.10.2017 with PH-KZS KLM ended its Fokker 70 Frankfurt operations. Last Frankfurt – Amsterdam service started on 15:00 (local) on runway 25 center as flight KLM 1768.