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LH Golden Jubilee
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:37 pm
by atuk
Today Lufthansa celebrated 50 years of service from Scotland(GLA) to FRA
Who, like me, remembers those 737-100 aircraft climbing out like homesick Stukkas then the arrival of my beloved Condor (at that time a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa ) on footie charters and a lifetime love was born.
Sometimes 737s were replaced by 727s then as time moved on 737-300/500 series. Todays it’s all Airbus and the crane is white, not yellow.
Re: LH Golden Jubilee
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2022 12:38 am
by egpffqtv
atuk wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:37 pm
Today Lufthansa celebrated 50 years of service from Scotland(GLA) to FRA
Who, like me, remembers those 737-100 aircraft claiming out like homesick Stukkas then the arrival of my beloved Condor (at that time a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa ) on footie charters and a lifetime love was born.
Sometimes 736s were replaced by 727s then as time moved on 737-300/500 series. Todays it’s all Airbus and the crane is white, not yellow.
LH961 on 31 March D-AISR was a yellow crane
Re: LH Golden Jubilee
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2022 3:45 am
by atuk
egpffqtv wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 12:38 am
[quote=atuk post_id=6214 time=<a href="tel:1648834668">1648834668</a> user_id=75]
Today Lufthansa celebrated 50 years of service from Scotland(GLA) to FRA
Who, like me, remembers those 737-100 aircraft claiming out like homesick Stukkas then the arrival of my beloved Condor (at that time a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa ) on footie charters and a lifetime love was born.
Sometimes 736s were replaced by 727s then as time moved on <a href="tel:737-300/500">737-300/500</a> series. Todays it’s all Airbus and the crane is white, not yellow.
LH961 on 31 March D-AISR was a yellow crane
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Nice to see. That’s an oldie, not all the fleet has been repainted yet.
Re: LH Golden Jubilee
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:32 am
by PiperOne
atuk wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:37 pm
Today Lufthansa celebrated 50 years of service from Scotland(GLA) to FRA
Who, like me, remembers those 737-100 aircraft claiming out like homesick Stukkas then the arrival of my beloved Condor (at that time a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa ) on footie charters and a lifetime love was born.
Sometimes 737s were replaced by 727s then as time moved on 737-300/500 series. Todays it’s all Airbus and the crane is white, not yellow.
Sadly not 50 years of continuous operation. Bit of a gap from 1974 to 1993. then another gap 1997-2018, EDI of course picking up in 1995, although operated by British Midland initially.
Re: LH Golden Jubilee
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2022 3:59 pm
by egpffqtv
PiperOne wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:32 am
atuk wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:37 pm
Today Lufthansa celebrated 50 years of service from Scotland(GLA) to FRA
Who, like me, remembers those 737-100 aircraft claiming out like homesick Stukkas then the arrival of my beloved Condor (at that time a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa ) on footie charters and a lifetime love was born.
Sometimes 737s were replaced by 727s then as time moved on 737-300/500 series. Todays it’s all Airbus and the crane is white, not yellow.
Sadly not 50 years of continuous operation. Bit of a gap from 1974 to 1993. then another gap 1997-2018, EDI of course picking up in 1995, although operated by British Midland initially.
DLT operated DUS-GLA with F50 around 1990-1992.
GLA - FRA came online 01 July 1992 (was initially meant to be end of March 1992 to coincide with start of summer schedule but was pushed back to July for some reason.
Re: LH Golden Jubilee
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2022 8:00 am
by atuk
PiperOne wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:32 am
[quote=atuk post_id=6214 time=<a href="tel:1648834668">1648834668</a> user_id=75]
Today Lufthansa celebrated 50 years of service from Scotland(GLA) to FRA
Who, like me, remembers those 737-100 aircraft claiming out like homesick Stukkas then the arrival of my beloved Condor (at that time a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa ) on footie charters and a lifetime love was born.
Sometimes 737s were replaced by 727s then as time moved on <a href="tel:737-300/500">737-300/500</a> series. Todays it’s all Airbus and the crane is white, not yellow.
Sadly not 50 years of continuous operation. Bit of a gap from 1974 to 1993. then another gap 1997-2018, EDI of course picking up in 1995, although operated by British Midland initially.
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Agreed but it was good to see the Station Manager, airline and airport rep together with crew at the foot of the rear steps of “UH” which incidentally was in the classic LH scheme with blue and yellow crane.
I don’t know if there is something on GLA website to indicate this but they should do. It’s good publicity for them.