Lufthansa has added its fourth A380 service to the US, with the superjumbo included on the airline's daily Munich-Washington DC route.
Flight LH414 departs Munich at 4:25 p.m. and arrives in Washington DC at 7:25 p.m. The return leg departs Washington Dulles Airport at 10:20 p.m. and lands back in Munich at 12:20 p.m. the next day.
The Lufthansa Group said the United States was its most important market outside its domestic European markets, with Washington DC being the only destination along with New York JFK served by all Austrian, Brussels, Lufthansa and SWISS airlines.
SWISS had initially planned to launch flights to Washington DC in March 2020.but the route was delayed until this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Washington joins Boston, Los Angeles and New York as current destinations for Lufthansa's A380.
The airline's superjumbo is configured with 509 seats (compared to 281 on the A340-600 that previously operated the Munich-Washington DC route), with eight seats in first class, 78 in business class, 52 in premium economy class and 371 in economic class.
Lufthansa put its entire fleet of 14 A380s into storage following the onset of Covid-19 and subsequently put six of the double-deckers up for sale.
In June 2022 Lufthansa announced that it would return an undeclared number of its superjumbos to service as travel demand returned following the lifting of Covid restrictions, and The first of the airline's A380s was reactivated in January 2023..
Six superjumbos will be parked at Munich Airport this summer, rising to eight A380s from 2025.
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