Lufthansa to receive first A350-1000 in anniversary livery
Lufthansa has painted its very first Airbus A350-1000 in a special anniversary design marking 100 years since the airline's founding, at Airbus's factory in Toulouse. The aircraft, registered D-AIFA and named "Deutschland," is set to be ferried from Toulouse to Munich this autumn, the airline announced.
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The new A350-1000 wears a blue livery featuring a white large-format crane (Lufthansa's symbol) along with the inscriptions "1926 | 2026" and "100". According to Lufthansa, 432 litres of blue paint and 246 litres of white paint were used for the livery.
The autumn ferry flight to Munich will not be a regular entry-into-service flight – it is a delivery transfer of an aircraft that is not yet fully complete. Before that, the aircraft still has to undergo test flights, cabin finishing work and a final acceptance procedure.
Lufthansa said the official christening of the aircraft will take place later and will be separate from its arrival in Munich – the carrier has not yet announced a specific date for the ceremony.
- Registration
- D-AIFA
- Aircraft name
- Deutschland
- Fuselage length
- 73.80 m
- Capacity
- 300 passengers
- Units ordered
- 15 A350-1000
- Deliveries by
- 2030
- Delivery number
- 700th aircraft from Airbus
- Ferry route
- Toulouse → Munich, autumn
The new type is seven metres longer than its smaller sibling, the A350-900, and will offer four cabin classes – First Class, Business Class, Premium Economy and Economy Class.
Anniversary fleet so far
- One Airbus A350-900, one Airbus A380, one Boeing 787-9 and one Boeing 747-8 are already flying long-haul routes in the special anniversary design.
- On short- and medium-haul routes, two Airbus A320neo aircraft carry the same livery.
- According to Lufthansa, the new A350-1000 is thus already the seventh aircraft in the fleet to wear a special livery marking the company's 100th anniversary.