Discover Airlines to operate the Airbus A350
Earlier this month, Scramble published an article on the future set-up of the Lufthansa Group longhaul-fleet. In it we reported that the Group was still debating if Discover Airlines would operate the Airbus A350, and now they have pulled the trigger and decided that it will.
In total, four A350-900s will join the fleet, while it will say goodbye to its three A330-200s.
According to aero.de, the four A350s that will be transferred to Discover Airlines are:
- D-AIVA (228), to be delivered in 2027
- D-AIVB (236), to be delivered in 2027
- D-AIVC (243), to be delivered in 2028
- D-AIVD (280), to be delivered in 2028
All four of these Airbuses were acquired by Lufthansa in 2021 from Philippine Airlines and have a very different cabin lay-out compared to the A350s that they have ordered themselves.
Discover Airlines is planning to grow the fleet from 30 today to around 40 by 2028. In the coming years it will also expand with additional Airbus A320s, as well as additional A330-300s.
The fleet of today is made-up of sixteen A320s, three A330-200s, and eleven A330-300s.
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