Mumbai: Lufthansa will not fly its Boeing 747-8 to Mumbai from next
week, as the city airport does not have enough parking bays to handle
the jumbo aircraft. However, the airline will continue to fly the Boeing
747-400 aircraft on the Frankfurt-Mumbai route.
The airport has only one in-contact (here aerobridge-linked) parking bay that can handle planes with wide-wing span such as Boeing 747-8 and Airbus A380.
The only available bay has been allocated to Emirates, which will operate A380 aircraft to Mumbai from July 21. The issue arose because schedules of Lufthansa and Emirates flights at Mumbai are separated by just five minutes.
On May 7, Lufthansa had announced it would fly Boeing 747-8 (designated as Queen of the Skies by the airline) on the Frankfurt-Mumbai route from July 15. The German airline already flies Boeing 747-8 to Delhi and Bangalore and it seats 386 seats in a three-class configuration. This includes eight first-class seats and 80 business class seats; the rest is economy seating. The 747-8, too, is a flagship product of Lufthansa and is flown on select routes. The airline had announced passengers would be able to use latest in-flight products and 6.5-ft long fully flat bed on this plane on Mumbai route.
Read news in full 08/07/14 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
The airport has only one in-contact (here aerobridge-linked) parking bay that can handle planes with wide-wing span such as Boeing 747-8 and Airbus A380.
The only available bay has been allocated to Emirates, which will operate A380 aircraft to Mumbai from July 21. The issue arose because schedules of Lufthansa and Emirates flights at Mumbai are separated by just five minutes.
On May 7, Lufthansa had announced it would fly Boeing 747-8 (designated as Queen of the Skies by the airline) on the Frankfurt-Mumbai route from July 15. The German airline already flies Boeing 747-8 to Delhi and Bangalore and it seats 386 seats in a three-class configuration. This includes eight first-class seats and 80 business class seats; the rest is economy seating. The 747-8, too, is a flagship product of Lufthansa and is flown on select routes. The airline had announced passengers would be able to use latest in-flight products and 6.5-ft long fully flat bed on this plane on Mumbai route.
Read news in full 08/07/14 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
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