In contrast to the Airbus A380 fleet, Lufthansa will definitely make a comeback for the Boeing 747-400. The largest airline Germany wants to gradually exterminate the jumbo jets and operate them at least until 2023.

The company confirmed that the eight Boeing 747-400s will be put back into service. Two-jet Boeing 2023s will serve as replacements from 777. Until then, the four-jet engines should still serve well. According to Lufthansa, the phase-out of the 747-400 is to start in 2023.

The crane is thus going a different way, because many airlines are currently parting with their four-jet engines. Lufthansa, for example, is taking certain Airbus A340s out of service and CEO Carsten Spohr considers the re-use of the A380 fleet to be "extremely unlikely".

The Boeing 747-400 is also to be used again in transatlantic traffic. In India, too, the pattern will gradually become visible again. The intention is for this pattern to be gradually eradicated and for the sub-fleet to be largely reactivated by around December 2021. However, the actual implementation depends on the further development of the corona pandemic, which cannot be foreseen.