Lufthansa marks 100 years with historic Berlin flights and anniversary aircraft

Lufthansa celebrated the 100th anniversary of its first flights with a major event in Berlin, retracing the airline’s inaugural routes from April 6, 1926. Originally launched as “Luft Hansa,” the airline’s first flights departed Berlin-Tempelhof for Zurich and Cologne—routes that were symbolically re-enacted a century later with special anniversary flights. Two aircraft—a Boeing 787-9 (D-ABPU