On April 6, 2026, Lufthansa conducted two special flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to reenact the inaugural operations of its predecessor, Deutsche Luft Hansa, which began exactly 100 years earlier.
At 15:00 local time, a Boeing 787-9 registered D-ABPU and an Airbus A350-900 registered D-AIXL, both in the airline’s centennial livery featuring a large white crane on a dark blue fuselage, departed for Zurich and Cologne, respectively. The flights carried around 400 passengers, including staff and media representatives.
This mirrors the original flights on April 6, 1926, from Berlin Tempelhof: a Fokker Grulich F II to Zurich with newlyweds aboard, and a Dornier Komet III D-580 from Cologne with one passenger. The modern aircraft were ferried from Frankfurt and Munich bases, as Lufthansa does not typically serve these routes.
A ground event at Berlin Brandenburg Airport involved hundreds of participants. As part of broader centennial activities, Lufthansa plans to open the Hangar One visitor and conference center at Frankfurt Airport in summer 2026, displaying reassembled historic aircraft: a Junkers Ju 52 and a Lockheed L-1649A Super Star.