Lufthansa A380 now with XXL crane | News

To mark Lufthansa’s 100th anniversary, the world’s largest passenger aircraft now also shines in a special blue design. Yesterday evening the Airbus A380 landed at Munich Airport under flight number LH9901. It came from Shannon, Ireland, where it was painted with an XXL crane and the letters ‘1926 | 2026’ and ‘100’.

35 colleagues worked on the Airbus A380 for exactly 34 days. They brought the 47 meter long stylized crane on the plane to life and painted a total area of ​​more than 4,000 square meters. That corresponds to approximately 16 tennis courts. The Airbus with the registration D-AIMH will start scheduled service in March.

The Airbus A380 is already the fourth aircraft with this extraordinary design. Early this month, a freshly painted blue Airbus A350-900 landed in Munich. A Boeing 787-9 and an Airbus A320neo, both based in Frankfurt, also fly in the ‘100th Anniversary colours’. Tomorrow, Friday, another Airbus A320neo with an XXL crane is expected in Munich.

A Boeing 747-8 and an Airbus A350-1000 will follow in the coming weeks. A total of seven special liveries will be in use on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first “Luft Hansa”. The aircraft will receive the special design as part of a regular repaint program or, in the case of new deliveries, as an initial factory paint job. This means that there will be only minimal additional costs for this special fleet performance in Lufthansa’s anniversary year.