Lufthansa’s latest Boeing 787 Dreamliner has been gifted the name “Wiesbaden” by Hesse’s Prime Minister Boris Rhein. D-ABPB entered service towards the tip of May and takes its name from the state capital of Hesse.
Lufthansa’s fifth Dreamliner named
The German carrier commemorated the naming of its fifth Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner with a ceremony at Frankfurt Airport (FRA), attended by Boris Rhein, Gert-Uwe Mende, Mayor of Wiesbaden, and Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr.
Photo: Lufthansa
Rhein commented,
The chosen aircraft is the newest Dreamliner to reach at Lufthansa, even though it is just not the youngest. While D-ABPB arrived essentially brand-new at the tip of March, it was built almost 4 years ago and originally destined to affix Hainan Airlines, then Vistara, but not taken up by either carrier. Lufthansa’s youngest 787 (D-ABPE) was delivered in mid-March having been built just over a 12 months ago – this Dreamliner was christened “Düsseldorf”.
A Hessian tradition
D-ABPB is just not the primary aircraft to be named after the enduring spa city of Wiesbaden, which has turn out to be something of a Lufthansa tradition. There have in truth been 4 former aircraft named after Hesse’s state capital – the primary was a Boeing 727 back in 1964, while essentially the most recent bearer was an Airbus A340 (D-AIHH) withdrawn from the fleet in May 2020.
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Lufthansa
- IATA/ICAO Code:
- LH/DLH
- Airline Type:
- Full Service Carrier
- Hub(s):
- Frankfurt Airport, Munich Airport
- Yr Founded:
- 1953
- Alliance:
- Star Alliance
- Airline Group:
- Lufthansa Group
- CEO:
- Carsten Spohr
- Country:
- Germany
