D-AIRD Lufthansa Airbus A321-131

Information about the Airbus A321-131

Airbus Industrie is a consortium of European aviation companies created in 1967 after the British, French and German governments signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding to develop the first Airbus airliner - the Airbus A300. Airbus and Boeing are currently dominating the Worlds airliner production, the largest airliner in production for many decades was the famous "Jumbo" Boeing 747 series airliner but now the new Airbus A380, due to enter service in 2007, is even bigger and has already been nicknamed the new "Super-jumbo". The Airbus A321 is a twin engine, single aisle airliner, based on the existing A320 but having it's fuselage lengthened by 6.94 m allowing an increased seating capacity of 220 passengers, the Airbus A321 made it's maiden flight on the 11th of March 1993.

Information about Lufthansa

Deutsche Lufthansa AG was started in 1926 as the Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft following the merger of "Junkers Luftverkehr" and "Deutsche Aero Lloyd". By the outbreak of WW2 Lufthansa had grown into one of the world's largest airlines. During WWII services were severely reduced and totally ceased from 1945 to 1953 following Germany's defeat.

Lufthansa merged with the Swiss airline SWISS in October 2005 and is consequently once again a major international airline operator. Currently Lufthansa is operating a mixed fleet of Boeing and Airbus airliners and has ordered 15 of the new Airbus A380 "Super-jumbo" airliners.

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