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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) 기타...
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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.
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.
If anything, 747’s will continue to live on as freighters, low hours passenger 747’s can be repurposed as Freighters. Some specialty airlines like Atlas Air still have 747’s as passenger aircraft w/the military & sports charters in mind needing to move large #’s of people @ one time.
I believe Emirates is planning on returning most of their A380s to service. If that happens, they’ll have more A380s in the air than there are 747-8s.
Hence why I said everyone is putting them in long term storage BUT Emirates lol.
Yes but if that happens Airbus would have won the quad race according to your logic.
No because the Boeing 747-8 and a lot of cargo 747-400 are still flying.
