According to information published by the German media on Friday, October 28, the airline Lufthansa has started the necessary work on the first large Airbus A380 aircraft in its fleet, which will return to service more than two years after that date. storage.

As shown over the past few months, after declaring, during the pandemic, that it sees no prospect of a return of the A380 due to the effects of Covid-19 on the aviation market, the airline Officially confirmed in June this year The need to reuse their double decker planes.

The change in plans regarding the world’s largest passenger model had two reasons: the air market recovered much faster than expected and Boeing delays With the design of the large twin-engine 777X aircraft, which Lufthansa hoped to acquire soon for use on its long-haul and highly-demanded flights.

And so, as I mentioned before aero.deLufthansa Chairman and CEO, Carsten Spohr, said last Thursday, October 27, that three Airbus A380s will be operational at the Munich base in the summer of 2023, but due to the high demand, Spohr described that only three aircraft are not enough.

Also according to information obtained by the German aviation portal, Lufthansa itself indicated that the D-AIMK-registered A380 is the first of the large aircraft on which work has already begun in Teruel, Spain, to fly again.

As seen previously, Lufthansa has opted to sell six of its 14 A380s to Airbus, and of the remaining eight, it said at least four to five would return to service from Munich, a base with high demand for services.