In a significant development, Denver International Airport will welcome its first-ever scheduled Airbus A380 flights. This is because Lufthansa will deploy the 509-seat double-decker quadjet from its Munich hub this summer. It will be the second time Denver has seen the superjumbo, although the first occasion was exceptional.
In November 2018 , an Air France A380 diverted from Los Angeles back to Paris CDG. Lufthansa's development has been enabled by basing eight A380s in Munich this summer. It plans to fly the type to five US airports this summer : Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, New York JFK, and Washington Dulles.
When all operators are included, this rises to 10 , with Dallas/Fort Worth, Honolulu, Houston Intercontinental, Miami, and San Francisco also having such flights. As always, it's different in the winter. They had more than 2,500 passengers daily.
The A380 will fly to Denver Lufthansa first served Munich-Denver in 2007, although the A340-300-operated service ended the following year. Strangely, two Lufthansa spokespersons gave conflicting reasons for the elimination. One said , "The flight did perform well, and we regrettably are simply short an aircraft.
" Another said , "It's not a flight that gives us enough revenue and benefits to keep it going." Lufthansa returned to the route—between two important Star Alliance hubs—in 2016, and transatlantic joint venture partner United Airlines joined it in 2022. The German giant has only ever deployed Airbus equipment on .