Daily Memo: Lufthansa Finally Retires The Airbus A340-600

Lufthansa Airbus A340-600

Lufthansa bids farewell to its last Airbus A340-600.

Credit: Lufthansa
For Francesco Sciortino, flying the Airbus A340-600 remained special until the very end. “After landing and on the way to the crew bus, you would always turn around again and look at it,” says Lufthansa Airlines’ chief operating officer, who is also an A330/A340 captain. After all, the aircraft has...
Jens Flottau

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and leads Aviation Week's global team of journalists covering commercial aviation.

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