At the end of last week, Lufthansa woke another Boeing 747-8 from its slumber with the D-ABYA. The machine was in Long Time Storage in Hamburg for around six months.

According to its own statements, Lufthansa has seen a surge in demand across the group. While company boss Carsten Spohr made it clear at the beginning of the corona pandemic that the B747-8 will definitely remain in the fleet, things are not looking good for the larger Airbus A380s. Another machine was flown out of Frankfurt last week.

In 2018, the D-ABYA was the first aircraft in the existing Lufthansa fleet to receive the then new livery. You can then also find out that the tail fin is perceived as black under certain light irradiation. For this reason Lufthansa made the dark blue paintwork a little lighter when repainting other aircraft.