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Dec 7, 2006 (newstodate): After more than three years without any order for a 747-400 passenger aircraft, Boeing has now secured the future for its passenger jumbo.
Launch customer for the Boeing 747-8 passenger aircraft is Lufthansa that has placed an order for 20 aircraft with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2010 and options for a further 20 aircraft.
Lufthansa also placed orders for seven Airbus A340-600 long-haul aircraft to join the fleet from 2008.
-The B747-8 underlines our strategy of graded market-specific services and capacity expansion. It fits perfectly in our intercontinental fleet structure and slots neatly capacity-wise between the A380 with around 550 seats and the A340-600 with around 300 seats, says Wolfgang Mayrhuber, Deutsche Lufthansa AG Chairman of the Executive Board.
Launch customer for the Boeing 747-8 passenger aircraft is Lufthansa that has placed an order for 20 aircraft with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2010 and options for a further 20 aircraft.
Lufthansa also placed orders for seven Airbus A340-600 long-haul aircraft to join the fleet from 2008.
-The B747-8 underlines our strategy of graded market-specific services and capacity expansion. It fits perfectly in our intercontinental fleet structure and slots neatly capacity-wise between the A380 with around 550 seats and the A340-600 with around 300 seats, says Wolfgang Mayrhuber, Deutsche Lufthansa AG Chairman of the Executive Board.