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Lufthansa is the biggest European airline which is also the national airline of Germany, apart from being the sixth biggest company in the world. Lufthansa serves about 200 destinations across 100 countries all over the world. Lufthansa, with its base in Cologne, serves over 410 destinations worldwide along with its partners. The prim hubs of Lufthansa are at Frankfurt International Airport and Munich International Airport. Lufthansa, operating over 400 airliners by engaging 100,000 staffs in all parts of the world, is one of the earliest members of the biggest airline alliance, the Star Alliance. Lufthansa has served more than 53.4 million passengers in 2006.
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Lufthansa was established in Berlin on 6th January, 1926 after unification between "Junkers Luftverkehr" and "Deutsche Aero Lloyd". Originally called Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft, Deutsche Lufthansa signed a contract with the Spanish government for the initiation of air service connecting the two countries. Investment for the launching of Iberia Airlines was a part of this contract.
Just before the commencement of World War II, Lufthansa emerged as one of the prime airline companies beginning services on routes to North Atlantic, South Atlantic and Far East. But with Germany’s downfall in 1945 Lufthansa stopped its service. Being re-established on 6th January 1953, Lufthansa was the first airline company to buy Boeing 737 along with purchasing the maximum number of these airliners. Lufthansa started its services to South America in 1971 and on 29th June, 1985 major fleet overhaul and renovation program of Lufthansa for the 1990s, was initiated. On 22nd March, 2005, Lufthansa was joined by Swiss. Presently Lufthansa is owned by Deutsche Postbank, Deutsche Bank and MGL Gesellschaft fur Luftverkehrswerte with the total number of staffs being 37, 042 (2007 March).
Lufthansa operates scheduled flights to numerous destinations across Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Europe. Lufthansa operates direct nonstop flights between Frankfurt International Airport and Boston Logan International Airport. From Frankfurt to Boston these flights cover the distance of 3670 miles in 8 hours 5 minutes and from Boston these flights cover the entire distance to Frankfurt in 7 hours 5 minutes. Between Munich International Airport and Boston Logan International Airport, Lufthansa operates nonstop direct flights covering the distance of 3851 miles between Boston and Munich. From Munich these flights fly to Boston in 8 hours 25 minutes and from Boston these flights fly to Munich in about 7 hours 25 minutes.
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