Lufthansa has been parking some Airbus A380s in Teruel, Spain, for some time. Now the remaining superjumbos parked in Frankfurt am Main will be flown out. The start was made on Tuesday by the D-AIMC, which will be parked in Tarbes for an indefinite period.

A total of five Airbus A380s will be transferred to Tarbes and Teruel. It has not yet been decided which machine will go to France and which to Spain. The costs for parking are significantly lower. For this reason, the group subsidiary also transferred Austrian Airlines the Boeing 777-200 with the registration OE-LPD.

Lufthansa will fly the five Airbus A380s that were still parked in Frankfurt between January and May 2021. The first machine, D-AIMC, was flown to its new parking lot in France on Tuesday. One machine per month is currently planned. The following Lufthansa A380s are currently located at Germany's largest airport: D-AIMD, D-AIME, D-AIMH, D-AIMI, D-AIML and D-AIMM.

The current plan also means that the crane will have two super jumbos ready in Frankfurt am Main. Group boss Carsten Spohr said a few months ago that it will only be used again if there is a corresponding demand. The carrier obviously wants to keep the option open that the machines can be reactivated quickly, for example for any repatriation.