Lufthansa operates new A340 service

From next May, Lufthansa will be operating Airbus A340 services from Düsseldorf to New York, Chicago and Toronto, said a spokesman for Lufthansa.

The first Lufthansa flight to North America, on June 8, 1955, was from Dusseldorf to New York.

Back then, about 100 passengers could cross the Atlantic in a Super Constellation in some 17 hours. But what in those days was considered a "high-speed" journey also came at a price. In the 50s, a ticket for a round-trip Lufthansa flight from Düsseldorf to New York could be purchased for 3,586 D-Marks Today, 53 years later, it only takes about eight hours to get to New York. And Lufthansa customers need no longer pay the equivalent of the price of a new car.