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That headline sounds big, but "entire fleet" in this case is only 12 planes. And those 12 are about half of Swiss' wide-body fleet. That makes it a tiny airlin
by t0mas88 2y ago
That headline sounds big, but "entire fleet" in this case is only 12 planes. And those 12 are about half of Swiss' wide-body fleet.
That makes it a tiny airline in comparison to others. For example Lufthansa group (which Swiss is a part of) has 98 wide-body aircraft. Competing Air France group has 165. The US is similar, Delta has 164. The Middle East is on another scale, Emirates has 249...
Still a nice innovation, but as a headline "Lufthansa group tests shark skin on 12 Boeing 777s" would be more realistic.
- philjohn 2y agoLufthansa are also rolling it out across their entire freight fleet.
- t0mas88 2y agoWhich is also only 11 wide body aircraft :-)
- alchemist1e9 2y agoI guess Lufthansa is now a fairly small airline then? Years ago it was a big one. Of course I can remember flying Pan Am so doesn’t mean much.
- arrakeenrevived 2y agoNote they said Lufthansa freight fleet, which is why it's only 11 planes. Lufthansa (the passenger airline) is indeed still a very large airline.
- cgeier 2y agoAccording to Wikipedia it's about 180 widebodies for Lufthansa group https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Group https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Group