Lufthansa, unlike almost every other airlne in the world, has been holding on to its old "jumbo jets." What's the reason, and ...

Lufthansa, one of the world's leading airlines, operates an extensive network of flights between Europe and the United States. The Boeing 747-8, known for its advanced technology and capacity ...

Calling The Boeing Co.'s new 747-8 a "highly modern" passenger jet, Germany's flagship carrier Lufthansa became the first customer to order what will be the biggest 747 ever. "The Boeing 747-8 is ...

Lufthansa plans to buy about 20 Boeing 747-8 planes worth $5 billion at list prices, a setback to Airbus, people familiar with the order said. Lufthansa would be the first airline customer to ...

The new Queen of the Skies has arrived in Frankfurt. Today Lufthansa became the first airline in the world to take delivery of a Boeing 747-8. The new Queen of the Skies has arrived in Frankfurt.

Boeing Co. has won an order from Deutsche Lufthansa AG for 20 of the planned 747-8 passenger planes, worth more than $5 billion at list prices, dealing another blow to European rival Airbus SAS.

All of this leaves one obvious question: Why does Boeing have orders for just 33 747-8 Intercontinentals, with only two airline customers for the model (Lufthansa and Korean Air)? Boeing has ...

The first Boeing (NYSE: BA) 747-8 Intercontinental passenger airliner was delivered Wednesday at Frankfurt airport, flown directly to the headquarters of German airline Lufthansa from the Boeing ...

Lufthansa is upgrading its Boeing 747-8 fleet with the NEXT in-flight entertainment (IFE) system supplied by Panasonic Avionics, according to a May 19 announcement between the two companies.

And while preorders of the 747-8 Intercontinental are nowhere near what Boeing saw with the 787 ... and from just two carriers--Lufthansa and Korean Air--and several private customers.

Lufthansa’s 14th Boeing 747-8 has landed in Frankfurt, becoming the 76th jumbo the airline has received from the American manufacturer since the 1970s and a veritable milestone in aviation history.

It's also the 14th of Boeing's newest model of the 747 – the 747-8 Intercontinental – to join Lufthansa's fleet. The German airline expects to take 19 "Dash-8s" in total, a figure that it says ...