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Lufthansa in Italy - 40 years
Celebrated by a tour of Junkers Ju 52/3m
On April 2nd 1958, a Convair 440 coming from Frankfurt landed at the Rome/Ciampino airport, thus inaugurating - after an interruption lasted many years - the first Lufthansa service in Italy.
From then on, Lufthansa progressively developed its services to Italy reaching, in 1998, a total of 1,056 weekly flights to sixteen destinations (Ancona, Bologna, Cagliari, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Elba island, Milan, Naples, Olbia, Pisa, Rome, Turin, Trieste, Venezia and Verona) from seven German towns (Hamburg, Koln/Bonn, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munchen and Stuttgart).
This network comprises 258 flights (from Ancona, Cagliari, Genoa, Pisa, Trieste, Venezia and Verona) operated, under a code-share agreement, by Air Dolomiti, the Italian partner of Lufthansa. Moreover, from the 1998 summer timetable on, Air Dolomiti collaborates with Lufthansa assuring 54 weekly two-way services from Genoa and Verona to Paris and 36 from Turin, Verona and Pisa to Barcelona.
During the month of April, Lufthansa celebrated in a very proper way the 40th anniversary of its activity in Italy, organizing a very effective promotional tour in seven Italian towns - Roma, Napoli, Firenze, Bologna, Torino, Milano e Venezia - with its vintage three-engined Junkers Ju 52/3m named "Berlin-Tempelhof". The aircraft, built in 1936, is beautifully restored and painted in an old fashion livery.
In the picture: Junkers Ju 52/3m D-CDLH "Berlin-Tempelhof" of Deutsche Lufthansa Berlin-Stiftung.
(Aeromedia, April 1998)