The Lufthansa Group is now using around half of the fleet in commercial flight operations. This has reached the level of the summer of the previous year. The group anticipates that further aircraft will be reactivated in the traditionally busy vacation months of July and August.

According to the Reiseopia portal, however, not all machines should actually be necessary. Rather, Lufthansa should also serve routes with very low demand, especially in Frankfurt and Munich, in order to protect take-off and landing rights from decay. There is currently little interest from the competition for those slots that have to be surrendered by resolution of the EU Commission.

The crane's fleet consists of 267 machines. The stated number also includes parked aircraft of the types Airbus A340-600 and Boeing 747-400. According to Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr, these should no longer be reactivated. The A380 sub-fleet is not looking particularly rosy either. There are currently 110 planes in operation, 78 of which are long-haul jets. At the subsidiaries Austrian Airlines, Swiss, Eurowings and Brussels Airlines, the active rate is sometimes lower.