Lufthansa has received its first Airbus A350-1000, painted in the airline’s special centenary livery at the Airbus plant in Toulouse and set to transfer to Munich this autumn following final test flights, interior work, and acceptance inspection.
The aircraft, registered D-AIFA and named “Deutschland,” carries the blue anniversary design featuring a white oversized crane and the lettering “1926 | 2026” and “100” — applied using 432 liters of blue paint and 246 liters of white. A formal naming ceremony will be held at a later date.
The delivery is doubly significant: it is the 700th aircraft Airbus has ever delivered to the Lufthansa Group, a milestone that underscores the depth of the two companies’ decades-long relationship.
At 73.80 meters in length, the A350-1000 is seven meters longer than the A350-900 variant and will seat 300 passengers across four cabins — First, Business, Premium Economy, and Economy. Lufthansa has ordered 15 A350-1000s in total, with deliveries continuing through 2030.
The new arrival becomes the seventh Lufthansa aircraft to wear the centenary livery, joining an A350-900, an A380, a Boeing 787-9, a Boeing 747-8, and two A320neo narrowbodies already flying the anniversary colors on routes around the world.
