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Quick Facts<\/td><\/tr>
Anniversary<\/td>Lufthansa turns 100 on April 6, 2026<\/td><\/tr>
Original Flights<\/td>April 6, 1926: Berlin-Tempelhof \u2192 Zurich (Fokker Grulich F II) and Berlin \u2192 Cologne (Dornier Komet III)<\/td><\/tr>
2026 Recreation<\/td>Boeing 787-9 (Berlin\u2013Zurich) and Airbus A350-900 (Berlin\u2013Cologne)<\/td><\/tr>
Special Livery<\/td>Blue with oversized white crane on five aircraft types (A320, A350, A380, 747, 787)<\/td><\/tr>
Passengers<\/td>400+ Lufthansa Group employees and partners<\/td><\/tr>
Fleet Today<\/td>~280 aircraft serving 200+ destinations worldwide<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n
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A Lufthansa Airbus A350 \u2014 one of the types that will wear the special centennial livery for the April 6 anniversary flights. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On April 6, 1926, a Fokker Grulich F II lifted off from Berlin-Tempelhof and pointed its nose toward Zurich. A Dornier Komet III headed for Cologne. Those two flights \u2014 bumpy, slow, unpressurised, and deeply brave \u2014 were the first commercial services of Deutsche Luft Hansa. A century later, the airline that grew from those fabric-winged biplanes is recreating the exact same routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Easter Monday, April 6, 2026, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner will depart Berlin for Zurich and an Airbus A350-900 will fly Berlin to Cologne. Both aircraft wear a special centennial livery \u2014 deep Lufthansa blue with an oversized white crane \u2014 and carry more than 400 passengers, all Lufthansa Group employees and their partners invited to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The symbolism is deliberate. Where the Fokker F II carried perhaps a dozen passengers in an open cockpit at 100 mph, the 787 will carry hundreds in pressurised comfort at 560 mph. The route is the same. Everything else has changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Tempelhof to the World<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lufthansa’s century spans the entire arc of modern aviation \u2014 and modern Germany. The original Luft Hansa was dissolved after World War II and refounded in 1953 as a West German carrier. It survived the Cold War, reunification, deregulation, 9\/11, two Gulf wars, a pandemic, and the collapse and rebirth of the European airline industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today it sits at the centre of one of the world’s largest airline groups, with Swiss, Austrian, Brussels Airlines, and Eurowings under its umbrella. Five aircraft types \u2014 the A320, A350, A380, Boeing 747, and 787 \u2014 now carry the anniversary livery across the global network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flightradar24 is tracking the anniversary fleet in real time, and aviation photographers have been staking out European airports for weeks to catch the liveried aircraft. For plane spotters, it’s become one of the most photographed events of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Century in the Air<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Not many companies survive a hundred years. Fewer survive a hundred years in aviation, an industry that has killed more airlines than it has created. Lufthansa endured because it adapted \u2014 from propellers to jets, from state ownership to privatisation, from point-to-point flying to the hub-and-spoke model that now funnels passengers through Frankfurt and Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anniversary flights won’t set any speed records. They won’t open new routes or debut new aircraft. They’ll simply follow the same path a brave pilot traced through turbulent skies a century ago \u2014 and that’s exactly the point. In aviation, the most powerful statement isn’t always about what’s new. Sometimes it’s about proving you’re still here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources: Lufthansa Group Newsroom, Flightradar24, Aviation A2Z, The Flight Club<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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