Airbus (Lufthansa)
The Airbus transport concept (sometimes also written as Air Bus ) was an attempt introduced by Deutsche Lufthansa in 1963 to sell passages on the route between Frankfurt and Hamburg without prior booking. In addition to low airfares, the elimination of all formalities was novel. The tickets were sold in the machine. The Lockheed Super Constellations , which were released in the North Atlantic Service, were used . The luggage was limited to 15 kg and no on-board service was offered.
The flights were offered two to three times a day, mainly as daytime connections e.g. B. at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.; they were not flown under Lufthansa flight numbers , but carried flight numbers A 1 to A 6. The price for a return flight of 135 DM was almost exactly the same as that for the train journey with the Trans-Europ-Express , which is considered to be luxurious the advantage of a flight time of just 1 hour and 20 minutes.
In the event of success, further routes from Frankfurt as the starting point to Munich and Düsseldorf as additional destinations were planned.
However, the calculated profitability threshold of 50 tickets sold per flight could not be reached with an average of 37 guests, and the offer was terminated after a good year.
