On June 1, 2023, Lufthansa’s first commercial Airbus A380 trip in three years departed.
Currently in flight on flight LH424, the D-AIMK-registered aircraft is traveling between Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) and Munich Airport (MUC).
After more than three years, when the bulk of larger, quad-engine aircraft were grounded during the COVID-19 epidemic owing to a lack of demand for air travel and the aircraft’s high operating expenses, the Airbus A380 was reinstated to the German airline’s fleet.
The plane left MUC at 4:01 PM local time (UTC +2) and is scheduled to arrive at BOS at 5:54 PM local time (UTC -5), according to data from flightradar24.com.
The Airbus A380 and its crew have been flying a lot of training and familiarization flights over the past two weeks, visiting numerous European locations while pilots re-familiarized themselves with the aircraft.
In response to the increase in demand for travel following the epidemic, Lufthansa, like many other airlines that formerly used the Airbus A380, has ungrounded the model.
Despite the German airline group’s repeated assertion that the A380 has no long-term place in the airline’s fleet, at least six of the aircraft could return by 2024. While the remaining four will be based at MUC for the following months, the airline is currently debating whether to revive two of the type.
The A380-equipped flights from MUC to locations like Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport (BKK), BOS, and New York John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) have been scheduled by the Frankfurt Airport (FRA)-based airline.
