My gosh, Lufthansa has really pimped its ride…
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FRA has one too; I saw it a few weeks ago. I asked my assistant and she said it was painted that way to include a swatch of every color Porsche has used on their cars over the years. The implication being that LH has some sort of advertising/mutually beneficial relationship with Porsche and doesn't actually choose the cars they get.
Lufthansa kart acquires a Starman, flies over the Swiss First Class lounge in Zurich
I and my son flew from Frankfurt on June 27 and it was there! Sadly, it was not the car in which we were driven to the plane 🙁 At least I took a fantastic shot of it with the plane engine in the background.
The window sticker in one of the pics reads "Lufthansa wishes Porsche all the best" so I'd imagine Lufthansa has some say. My guess is this is like the well wishes from Star Wars to Titanic "Congratulations on dethroning us in the box office" full page news ad in the late 90's. Just one marketing department geeking out over another (which is cute).
I wonder whether Air France La Premiere customers will have a similarly colourful Porsche at Charles de Gaulle
Colors like this are usually a vinyl wrap, not an actual paint job. Perfect for something that is only relevant for one year - then you take the wrap off.
"75th anniversary?" Pretty sure Porsche was founded in the early 1930s by the Third Reich, but I suppose LH is happy to gloss over those details.
I'm actually a bit surprised they would do this. A lot of people flying F want privacy/do not want attention drawn to them, and as you point out, passengers and even the FA's stopped to take pictures of this. I think it's fun, but I can see it bothering a lot of people who do not want the attention.
You are mistaken Porsche for Volkswagen, although Ferdinand Porsche was the designer of both cars and the founder of Porsche, and although the Porsche-Piëch Family are the main owners of both companies today; they are not the same.
Looks like Porsche as a company was founded in 1931 but the first car was in 1948, hence the 75th anniversary celebrations... still, it feels a bit like revisionist history to pretend the history of Porsche began after WW2 when they haven't even bothered to change the name of the company named for a high-ranking Nazi SS member.
apparaently Aeroplan removed all LH space from their site and Lifemiles has also taken down most of the available space so for the foreseeable future, United is the available option for redeeming LH let alone LH First
Why no mention of the first Porsches? Iconic, and set the standard what was to come. The basic 356 form is what catapulted this marque to its current status.
There is the same car in Frankfurt or it was moved from Frankfurt to Munich. I had a ride on it on June 10th. At that time it has just arrived some days ago.
I mean you have no economy or business space on Aeroplan for LH - likley a glitch but it's been like this to close to a week