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Help Alliance

Help Alliance  
D-AIEP A321-271NX Lufthansa  [+] 2024-

Help alliance is the charity of the Lufthansa Group, supporting people all over the World who lack the most basic necessities of life. The core focus of the association is on school and vocational education as a key for effective poverty alleviation. This "Helping Hands" scheme was unveiled in December 2024 as the charity celebrated its 25th anniversary. The 297 handprints on the A321neo were chosen as part of a fundraising campaign.

Image  ©  Martin Krause (FRA)
Tags   Charity

Fanhansa #5

Fanhansa  
#5
D-AIEH A321-271NX Lufthansa  [+] 2024-25
D-AIEO A321-271NX Lufthansa  [+] 2024-25
D-AIDA A321-231 Lufthansa  [+] 2024-25
D-AIWI A320-214 Lufthansa  [+] 2024-25
D-AIWK A320-214 Lufthansa  [+] 2024-25
D-AIZG A320-214 Lufthansa  [+] 2024-25

LH was once again a sponsor of the German Football Team for the EURO 2024 tournament hosted by Germany.

Image  ©  Diego Ruiz de Vargas (MAD)
Tags   National Football Team

Yes to Europe (#2)

Yes to Europe  
D-AENE A320-251N Eurowings 2024-
D-AIUC A320-214 Lufthansa  [+] 2024-25
OE-LZO A320-271N Austrian 2024
OO-TCV A320-214 Brussels Airlines 2024

For the second time, Lufthansa added large titles to an A320 to campaign for more Europeans to vote during the European Parliament elections of Spring 2024. This time 4 aircraft from 4 different airlines of the LH Group wear the titles. Note the font used for the special titles is each time the one used by the airline for its regular branding.

Images  ©  Andreas Fietz (PMI), Martin Krause (FRA), Kevin Cleynhens (BRU) & Daniel Nagy (BUD)
Tags   Initiative

600th Airbus aircraft

600th Airbus aircraft  
D-AIEQ A321-271NX Lufthansa  [+] 2023-

Airbus and Lufthansa celebrated the delivery of the LH Group's 600th Airbus delivery at the Hamburg-Finkenwerder plant on May 23, 2023. By that time the Lufthansa Group (including other airlines like Swiss that are now part of the LH Group) has received more Airbus aircraft than any other customer worldwide.

Image  ©  Björn Strey (FRA)
Tags   Fleet

Fanhansa 2022 #4 Diversity Wins

Fanhansa  
#4
Diversity Wins.  
D-AIKQ A330-343 Lufthansa  [+] 2022-23

The 2022 edition of the Fanhansa scheme was unveiled on an A330 and featured the silhouettes of the members of the national football team. The aircraft flew the German team to Muscat for training prior to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Illustrator Peter Phobia was the author of the design which highlighted the Lufthansa message of "openness, tolerance, diversity and bringing people together."

Image  ©  Wolfgang Kronfuss (VIE)
Tags   Initiative, National Football Team

Lovehansa

Lovehansa  
D-AINY A320-271N Lufthansa  [+] 2022-

A320neo "Lingen" wears Lovehansa titles on the occasion of June "Pride Month".

Image  ©  Chris Markides (JMK)
Tags   Peace & Love

CleanTechFlyer

CleanTechFlyer  
We innovate for cleaner aviation - #MakeChangeFly
D-AIVD A350-941 Lufthansa  [+] 2022-23

This ex-Philippine Airlines A350 was re-delivered to Lufthansa in May 2022 in a non-standard livery.

Image  ©  Marlin Lehmann (MUC)
Tags   Green-themed

Lufthansa & You

Lufthansa & You  
#TogetherAgain
D-AIXP A350-941 Lufthansa  [+] 2021-22

These special titles were added to this A350 to highlight the Summer 2021 LH marketing campaign based on the re-opening of several routes, including many to the US.

Image  ©  Sierra Aviation Photography (FRA)
Tags   Airline Marketing

Hauptstadtflieger

The Capital's Plane   Hauptstadtflieger
Lufthansa Loves Berlin - BER
D-AINZ A320-271N Lufthansa  [+] 2020-21

This aircraft performed one of the very first flights into Berlin Brandenburg Airport when it opened to the public on October 31, 2020.

Image  ©  Thomas Ingendorn (MUC)
Tags   Airport

Lu #3

Lu  
#3
D-AILU A319-114 Lufthansa  [+] 2020-

Featuring "Lu" the little crane, the mascot of Jet Friends, the Lufthansa club for kids. Third version of the stickers, released when the aircraft was painted in the new livery at Norwich in early 2020.

Image  ©  Jonas Lehmann (MUC)
Tags   Mascots

Say yes to Europe

Say yes to Europe  
D-AIZG A320-214 Lufthansa  [+] 2019

Lufthansa was campaigning for more Europeans to vote during the European Parliament elections of May 2019.

Image  ©  Sierra Aviation Photography (FRA)
Tags   Initiative

Die Maus #2

Die Maus  
#2
D-AIRY A321-131 Lufthansa  [+] 2019-

The orange mouse is the main character of the animated interludes of a well-known educational children's series on German TV called The Show with the Mouse (Die Sendung mit der Maus); an episode of the series detailed the assembly of this very aircraft back in 1999.

In February 2019 the aircraft was repainted in the latest LH scheme and the decals were slightly modified, now including a smaller blue elephant, a friend of the mouse in the show. Decals are now visible on the port side of the plane only.

Image  ©  Kevin Cleynhens (FRA)
Tags   Cartoon & Anime, TV

Fanhansa #3 Mannschaftsflieger

Fanhansa  
#3
The Team's aircraft   Mannschaftsflieger
D-AISQ A321-231 Lufthansa  [+] 2018

The 2018 edition of the Fanhansa scheme was unveiled on an aircraft sporting the new scheme; the titles were removed quickly after the team's defeat in the World Cup in Russia.

Image  ©  Dirk Grothe (HAM)
Tags   National Football Team

FC Bayern Munich #3

FC Bayern Munich   München
#3
D-AIHZ A340-642 Lufthansa  [+] 2017-18

Lufthansa became an FC Bayern Munich's official sponsor in 2016 and added decals of players of the season on this A340. This was the updated version of the stickers unveiled in July 2017 and displaying the updated team. Note the two sides showed different decals.

Image  ©  Abdurahman N. (DOH)
Tags   Football Club

Happy Birthday! 25 Years Munich Airport

Happy Birthday!   Glückwunsch!
25 Years Munich Airport   25 Jahre Flughafen München
D-AIUQ A320-214 Lufthansa  [+] 2017

Operations started at the new Munich Airport on 17 May 1992, replacing the old field at Riem. Lufthansa celebrated its 25th birthday in 2017 with special decals on this A320. Titles in German on the port side and in English on the starboard side.

Image  ©  Dirk Grothe (HAM)
Tags   Airport

5 Starhansa

5 Starhansa  
Lufthansa SkyTrax 5 Star Airline
D-ABYM B747-830 Lufthansa  [+] 2017-18
D-AIZB A320-214 Lufthansa  [+] 2017-18
D-AIZX A320-214 Lufthansa  [+] 2017-18

In early 2017 Lufthansa celebrated being the first European airline to be awarded the 5-star airline rating by UK-based airline review website Skytrax.

Images  ©  Esa Kaihlanen (HND) & Dirk Grothe (HAM)
Tags   Awards

Shark skin technology for green effieciency

Shark skin technology for green effieciency  
A joint project of Airbus and Lufthansa
D-AIKB A330-343 Lufthansa  [+] 2016-19

The effect of sharkskin (riblet structure) has been known for decades and Lufthansa Technik teamed up with Airbus in the research of a new technology of paint coating in order to reduce drag and thus fuel consumption. Riblets were applied to the upper side of the wings and the upper and lower sides of the horizontal stabilizer of this A330.

Image  ©  Owen O'Rourke (CLT)
Tags   Green-themed

Crane Protection Germany

Crane Protection Germany   Kranichschutz Deutschland
Flying together for 25 years   Wir fliegen seit 25 Jahren gemeinsam
D-AIRR A321-231 Lufthansa  [+] 2016-17

The logo of Lufthansa is a stylized crane and the airline has been supporting Crane Protection since the 1980s, and more specifically Crane Protection Germany since 1992. The aircraft chosen for the decals was D-AIRR named after the Northern Germany city of Wismar as the city is in close proximity to the resting grounds of the cranes.

Images  ©  Bas Bonsel (AMS) & Sierra Aviation Photography (FRA)
Tags   Initiative, Wildlife