Description
Date of flight: January 15th 2012.
IATA flight number: LH1712 / LH1713
ICAO flight number / Callsign: DLH6ME / DLH5YE
Airline: Deutsche Lufthansa
Type of aircraft: Airbus A321
Registration / Tail number: D-AISL
Destination: Munich - Franz Josef Strauss / MUC / EDDM (Germany)
Originator: Zagreb - Pleso / ZAG / LDZA (Croatia)
Deutsche Lufthansa
AG
is the flag carrier of Germany and the largest airline in Europe in terms of
overall passengers carried. The name of the company is derived from Luft
(the German word for "air"), and Hansa (after the Hanseatic
League, a powerful medieval trading group).
The airline is the
world's fourth-largest airline in terms of overall passengers carried,
operating services to 18 domestic destinations and 203 international
destinations in 78 countries across Africa, Americas, Asia and Europe. Together
with its partners Lufthansa services around 410 destinations. With over 710
aircraft it has the second-largest passenger airline fleet in the world when
combined with its subsidiaries.
Lufthansa's
registered office and corporate headquarters is in Deutz, Cologne, Germany,
with its main operations base (Lufthansa Aviation Center (LAC) and primary
traffic hub at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt am Main with a second hub at
Munich Airport. The majority of Lufthansa's pilots, ground staff, and flight
attendants are based in Frankfurt.
Lufthansa is a
founding member of Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance,
formed in 1997. The Lufthansa Group employs 117,000 people worldwide of 146
nationalities. In 2010, over 90 million passengers flew with Lufthansa (not
including Germanwings and Brussels Airlines).
