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German travelers hurrying through Frankfurt's bustling Rhein-Main airport stopped in surprise last week as the loudspeaker boomed: "Lufthansa flight from Hamburg to Munich has just arrived." Then most of them rushed to the big waiting-room window and looked out onto the field. There a light-blue Lufthansa Convair, with the familiar eagle painted on its nose, taxied in, completing the first scheduled test run for the line. Germany had her wings back...
...just ten years ago that a Junkers 52 left Berlin and headed for Madrid on the last Lufthansa flight. For the next decade, with airlines barred by the Allies, all Germans had left were memories of a once-great organization. On the eve of World War II, Lufthansa (founded in 1926) had 125 planes, flew more than a quarter-million passengers 73 million miles a year. It ranked as the world's second airline in passenger miles flown (first: Pan American). It pioneered the Europe-South America run in 1934; two years later it was one of the first...
Eagle into Sparrow. The new Lufthansa, with 90% of its backing from the government, 10% from private investors, is just a sparrow compared to its old, eagle-size self. Since no plane factories are permitted in Germany, Lufthansa ordered its planes from the U.S.; four Convairs have already arrived and eight Constellations are due, starting later this month. Lufthansa's 70 pilots, recruited from among company veterans, had to retrain and catch up with ten missing years of flight development in Britain, the U.S., and Holland; the peace treaty prohibits flight training in Germany. Recently Lufthansa hired ten pilots...
...noisy, German-made, trimotor planes, it made not a single peseta until 1946. After several reorganizations, the original airline went under, after serving the Loyalist cause during the Spanish civil war. Its successor was started in 1937 by Franco, who needed a transport service, and asked Germany's Lufthansa for help. But in World War II, when Britain and the U.S. warned Spain to cancel its agreement with Germany or lose its gasoline supplies, Franco nationalized the company, has since bought up the stock from private investors...
Germany's Lufthansa, commercial cousin of Hitler's Luftwaffe, will soon be air borne again. Last week in Cologne, its board of directors held their first postwar meeting in a bomb-battered building. Since the surrender of 1945, Germans have been forbidden to own or operate aircraft, but the ban will soon be lifted. Lufthansa's aircraft (four U.S. Convairs and four Constellations) are due for early delivery, its prewar chief of operations is back as manager, and the pilots are in harness again. Buttressed by government subsidies, Lufthansa's aircraft will soon be taking...