LUFTHANSA AIRLINES
Lufthansa owes its origins to "Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft" (renamed "Lufthansa" in 1933), which is formed from a merger between "Deutsche Aero Lloyd" (DAL) and "Junkers Luftverkehr" in January 1926.
Lufthansa, Air Canada, SAS, Thai Airways und United Airlines create the "Star Alliance", the world's first multilateral airline grouping, later to be joined by other carriers.
Lufthansa corporate headquarters is in Cologne, with its main base and primary traffic hub at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt am Main with a second hub at Munich Airport.
Nowadays, the airline is the world's fifth largest airline in terms of overall passengers carried, operating services to 209 destinations in 81 countries. Together with its partners Lufthansa services around 410 destinations.
Lufthansa has the third-largest passenger airline fleet in the world operating 531 aircraft. |
