Heading to Germany with Lufthansa for the Inaugural Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Flight

By David Parker Brown, on May 29th, 2012 at 8:00 am

I recently received an invite to head to Germany for about 24 hours before turning around and taking the first passenger flight on-board the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental. How could I refuse?

I will be leaving Seattle (SEA) on a Lufthansa Airbus A330 non-stop to Frankfurt (FRA) before grabbing a seat on the inaugural flight from Frankfurt to Washington DC (IAD) on flight LH416. You better believe I will be sharing this experience as much as I can. Follow on Twitter and of course on the blog.

This is exciting for a number of different reasons. One of which is I have already taken a ride on one of Lufthansa’s Airbus A380s and I look forward to comparing that experience to the Intercontinental flight. It won’t be that easy, since the 747-8I is debuting Lufthansa’s new business class product, where the A380 I flew had their older product.

If you have the means (and an open calendar), I just checked this morning and there are still a few tickets left to make the inaugural flight yourself. You also have the chance to win two tickets on a future 747-8I flight on Lufthansa via their Intercontinental mini-site. Be careful though. That mini-site will make you easily burn some time with the 3D 747-8I tour, videos and more.

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DavidBrown(REALLY)

May 29, 2012 at 8:28 am · Reply

Dude sometimes I really hate you….Well not really. What a cool opportunity getting to ride the initial Boeing big boss in the sky flight.

David Parker Brown

May 29, 2012 at 10:38 pm · Reply

This is my first true inaugural flight. I am excited

David

Jeff

May 29, 2012 at 8:45 am · Reply

The 747-8 FRA/IAD route is scheduled 6 days per week.
Was wondering..what do they do with the plane on the nonscheduled day?
I booked on LH419 on 8/28 a few months ago, using ff. I found out that the flight that day is a 747-400 not the newbie.