Airbus Updates No.4604

 

Discover Airlines to retrofit A330 cabins by mid-2028

Discover Airlines (4Y, Frankfurt International) will retrofit the cabins of its long-haul A330-300s by mid-2028, unveiling an "ocean blue" interior, costing a "three-digit million euro sum", in what it calls the biggest investment in its five-year history. All sixteen A330s will begin receiving the new cabins from April 2027. After the refit, each aircraft will feature 288 seats: 227 in economy, 31 in premium economy, and 30 in business. There will be two front-row business class suites, a redesigned "hard-shell" premium economy seat, upgraded economy seating, touchscreens with Bluetooth, and free high-speed Starlink internet in all classes.

Airbus Updates No.4557

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.