After 12 weeks of work, Lufthansa has finished overhauling the first of eight Airbus A380s.
The main focus of the retrofit is the installation of an entirely new, 68-seat business class on the aircraft’s upper deck. The new cabin includes Thompson seats, six-and-a-half-foot beds, flexible partitions, and 18-inch Panasonic entertainment screens.
Lufthansa is also carrying out routine maintenance work on the jets while they are at the Elbe Flugzeugwerke facility in Dresden.
The first A380 to complete the overhaul, D-AIMC, officially reentered service on Thursday with a flight from Munich to Los Angeles.
The next Lufthansa A380 in line for retrofit work is D-AIMH, which currently sports a special dark blue and white livery honoring the airline’s 100th anniversary. It arrived in Dresden on the same day work wrapped up on D-AIMC.
All eight A380s are scheduled to be retrofitted by mid-2027, officials said.
