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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.