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The company was founded on 6 January 1926 in Berlin, following a merger between "Deutsche Aero Lloyd" (DAL) and "Junkers Luftverkehr"[citation needed]. The company's original name was Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft, Lufthansa in one word has been used since 1933. On December 9, 1927, Deutsche Luft Hansa, on behalf of the German government, established an agreement with the Spanish government authorizing an air service between the two countries. This included a capital investment to establish an air company that would eventually become Iberia.

In the years prior to World War II, the company developed into one of the world's leading airlines, pioneering routes to the Far East and across the North and South Atlantic, using a large fleet of mostly Dornier, Junkers, Heinkel, Focke-Wulf and other German-designed aircraft. After the outbreak of war in 1939, Lufthansa was only able to maintain service to neutral countries, and suspended service following Germany's defeat in 1945.

Lufthansa was recreated on 6 January 1953 as Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf (Luftag) and was renamed to Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft on August 6, 1954. The "new" Lufthansa of 1953 is not the legal successor of the Lufthansa during and before WWII.
On 1 April 1955 Lufthansa resumed scheduled service within Germany. International operations started on May 15, 1955 with flights to points in Europe, followed by service to New York on June 8 using Lockheed Super Constellations. South Atlantic routes were resumed in August of 1956.

East Germany attempted to establish its own airline in the 1950s using the Lufthansa name, but this resulted in a dispute with West Germany, where the airline was already operating. East Germany renamed its national airline to Interflug, which ceased operations in 1991. Lufthansa was banned from flying into West Berlin until the demise of the communist regime.

In 1958, Lufthansa placed an order for four Boeing 707s, used to start jet services from Frankfurt to New York in March of 1960. Boeing 720s were later bought to back up the 707 fleet. In February of 1961, Far East routes were extended beyond Bangkok, Thailand to Hong Kong and Tokyo. The cities of Lagos, Nigeria and Johannesburg, South Africa were added in 1962.

Lufthansa introduced the Boeing 727 into service in 1964 and in May of that same year they began the Polar route from Frankfurt to Tokyo. In February of 1965, the company placed an order for twenty-one Boeing 737 medium-haul jets, which were introduced into service in 1968.

Lufthansa was the first customer to purchase and also bought the largest number of Boeing 737 aircraft, and was one of only four buyers of the new 737-100s (the others were NASA, Malaysia-Singapore Airlines and Avianca - while the NASA airframe was technically the first constructed, it was the last delivered and originally intended for delivery to Lufthansa). In doing so, Lufthansa became the first foreign launch customer for

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    • Route Network

      Africa
      Algeria
      Algiers (Houari Boumedienne Airport)
      Egypt
      Alexandria (Borg al Arab Airport)
      Cairo (Cairo International Airport)
      Eritrea
      Asmara (Asmara International Airport)
      Ethiopia
      Addis Ababa (Bole International Airport)
      Ghana
      Accra (Kotoka International Airport)
      Kenya
      Nairobi (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport) Cargo only
      Libya
      Tripoli (Tripoli International Airport)
      Morocco
      Casablanca (Mohammed V International Airport)
      Nigeria
      Abuja (Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport)
      Lagos (Murtala Mohammed International Airport)
      Port Harcourt (Port Harcourt International Airport)
      Senegal
      Dakar (Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport) Cargo only
      South Africa
      Cape Town (Cape Town International Airport)
      Johannesburg (OR Tambo International Airport)
      Sudan
      Khartoum (Khartoum International Airport)
      Tunisia
      Tunis (Tunis-Carthage International Airport)

      Asia

      East Asia
      China, People's Republic of
      Beijing (Beijing Capital International Airport)
      Hong Kong (Hong Kong International Airport)
      Guangzhou (Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport)
      Shanghai (Shanghai Pudong International Airport)
      Japan
      Nagoya (Chubu International Airport)
      Osaka (Kansai International Airport)
      Tokyo (Narita International Airport)
      South Korea
      Busan (Gimhae International Airport) [starts March 27, 2007]
      Seoul (Incheon International Airport)

      South Asia
      India
      Bangalore (HAL Bangalore International Airport)
      Chennai (Chennai International Airport)
      Delhi (Indira Gandhi International Airport)
      Hyderabad (Begumpet Airport)
      Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport)
      Mumbai (Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport)
      Pakistan
      Lahore (Allama Iqbal International Airport) Cargo only

      Southeast Asia
      Indonesia
      Jakarta (Soekarno-Hatta International Airport)
      Malaysia
      Kuala Lumpur (Kuala Lumpur International Airport)
      Philippines
      Manila (Ninoy Aquino International Airport)
      Singapore
      Singapore (Singapore Changi Airport)
      Thailand
      Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi Airport)
      Vietnam
      Ho Chi Minh City (Tan Son Nhat International Airport)

      Southwest Asia
      Armenia
      Yerevan (Zvartnots International Airport)
      Azerbaijan
      Baku (Heydar Aliyev International Airport)
      Bahrain
      Manama (Bahrain International Airport)
      Georgia
      Tbilisi (Tbilisi International Airport)
      Iran
      Tehran (Mehrabad International Airport)
      Israel
      Tel Aviv (Ben Gurion International Airport)
      Jordan
      Amman (Queen Alia International Airport)
      Kazakhstan
      Almaty (Almaty International Airport)
      Astana (Astana International Airport)
      Kuwait
      Kuwait (Kuwait International Airport)
      Lebanon
      Beirut (Rafic Hariri International Airport)
      Oman
      Muscat (Seeb International Airport)
      Qatar
      Doha (Doha International Airport)
      Saudi Arabia
      Dammam (King Fahd International Airport)
      Jeddah (King Abdulaziz International Airport)
      Riyadh (King Khalid International Airport)
      Turkmenistan
      Ashgabat (Ashgabat Airport)
      United Arab Emirates
      Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi International Airport)
      Dubai (Dubai International Airport)
      Sharjah (Sharjah International Airport) Cargo only
      Uzbekistan
      Tashkent (Tashkent International Airport) Cargo only
      Yemen
      Sana'a (Sana'a International Airport)

      Europe
      Austria
      Graz (Graz Airport)
      Linz (Linz Airport)
      Vienna (Vienna International Airport)
      Belarus
      Minsk (Minsk International Airport)
      Belgium
      Brussels (Brussels International Airport)
      Bosnia and Herzegovina
      Sarajevo (Sarajevo International Airport)
      Bulgaria
      Sofia (Sofia Airport)
      Croatia
      Zagreb (Zagreb Airport)
      Cyprus
      Larnaca (Larnaca International Airport)
      Czech Republic
      Prague (Ruzyně International Airport)
      Denmark
      Copenhagen (Copenhagen Airport)
      Estonia
      Tallinn (Tallinn Airport)
      Finland
      Helsinki (Helsinki-Vantaa Airport)
      France
      Bordeaux (Aéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac)
      Lyon (Saint-Exupéry International Airport)
      Marseilles (Ma

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    • Orders

      Orders

      Lufthansa is the launch customer for the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental.30 (+30) A319
      10 A320
      15 A321
      5 A330 (deliveries: January 2008)
      8 A340-600 (deliveries: 2006-2009)
      15 A380 (deliveries: 2009)
      20 747-8 (deliveries: 2010)

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    • Fleet

      Lufthansa operates the following aircraft as of February 2007:

      Lufthansa Fleet Aircraft Total Passengers
      (First/Business*/Economy) Routes Notes
      Airbus A300-600R 14 280*
      Airbus A319 20
      (23 orders) 132*
      Airbus A320 36
      (15 orders) 156*
      Airbus A321 26
      (15 orders) 190*
      Airbus A330-300 10
      (5 orders) 221 (8/48/165)
      Airbus A340-300 28 266 (44/222)
      221 (8/48/165)
      247 (8/42/197)
      Airbus A340-600 16
      (8 orders) 345 (66/279)
      306 (8/60/238)
      Airbus A380-800 (15 orders) Entry into service: 2009
      Boeing 737-300 33 123*
      126*
      Boeing 737-500 30 123*
      Boeing 747-400 30 330 (16/80/234)
      390 (16/64/310)
      Boeing 747-8[1] (20 orders) Launch Customer
      Entry into service: 2010

      *First Class is offered aboard some international flights.
      *Short haul aircraft base Business Class seating amounts by demand.


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