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Bookable now: five flights weekly with world’s biggest passenger aircraft
New on offer to Lufthansa passengers are five flights weekly from 26 September 2013 with the Airbus A380 from Frankfurt to Shanghai. Shanghai is the second Lufthansa A380 destination in China after Beijing. Flight LH 728 leaves Frankfurt at 17.20 hours and arrives in Shanghai at 09.55 hours. The LH 729 return flight takes off at 13.15 hours, arriving in Frankfurt at 18.55 hours (local time). During the ten-hour 35 minute air journey, passengers in the cabin enjoy all amenities of the world’s biggest passenger aircraft.
The travel experience with the Lufthansa A380 is unique. Passengers travel in the world’s quietest First Class with a host of exclusive privileges. Passengers in Business and Economy Class also enjoy the highest standards of comfort. In-flight entertainment, including a choice of the latest movies, offers a varied and optimum programme for passengers to relax. The Lufthansa A380 seats a total of 526 passengers: eight in First Class, 98 in Business Class and 420 in Economy Class. Besides Shanghai and Beijing, Lufthansa is operating A380 flights to Houston, Johannesburg, San Francisco, Singapore and Tokyo in the 2013 summer flight schedules.
Initially, Shanghai flights are available five times weekly in the A380 timetable. Together with the services on the route operated by an Airbus A340-600, Lufthansa passengers have a choice of flying twice-daily from Frankfurt to Shanghai. Furthermore, Lufthansa offers a daily connection between Munich and Shanghai. SWISS also flies to the Chinese metropolis from Zurich.
Round-trip flights Shanghai can be booked at www.lufthansa.com or through the Lufthansa Call Center in Germany 01805 805 805 (€0.14/min: maximum cell phone rates €0.42/min).
Reservations can also be made at Lufthansa travel agency partners or at Lufthansa sales counters at airports. All the details about the A380 are available for download at www.lufthansa.com/A380 .
Deutsche Lufthansa AG is an Aviation Group comprising around 400 subsidiaries and affiliates. The Lufthansa Group is dedicated to quality and innovation, safety and reliability. Headquartered in Germany, the Group operates in five business segments – passenger transportation (Passenger Airline Group), logistics, MRO, catering and IT services. Passenger transportation is the Group’s core business: The airlines engaged in the passenger transportation business are Lufthansa Passenger Airlines (including Lufthansa Regional) Austrian Airlines, SWISS and Germanwings as well as stakeholdings in Brussels Airlines, JetBlue und SunExpress. In the 2012 business year, the airlines in the Lufthansa Group welcomed more than 103 million passengers on board their flights, making it Europe’s leading airline grouping. Operating through the Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, Brussels and Zurich hubs, Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and SWISS jointly serve 253 destinations in 103 countries on four continents. The Group fleet currently consists of 629 aircraft – on order are another 239, valued at more than 23 billion euros at list price and scheduled for delivery until 2025. With its ongoing expenditure in fleet renewal, the Group is consistently making the fleet more cost-efficient and its operations more environment-friendly. End of September 2012 the Lufthansa Group employed more than 120,000 people. In the 2012 business year, it returned revenues totalling 30.1 billion euros and published an operating result of 524 million euros. More details are available at www.lufthansa.com.
