Editing Lufthansa (section)

=== Aircraft naming conventions ===
In September 1960, a Lufthansa Boeing 707 (D-ABOC), which would serve the Frankfurt-New York intercontinental route, was christened ''Berlin'' after the divided city of Berlin by then-mayor [[Willy Brandt]]. Following ''Berlin'', other Lufthansa 707 planes were named "[[Hamburg]]", "Frankfurt", "[[Munich|München]]", and "[[Bonn]]". With these names, the company established a tradition of [[Ship naming and launching|naming]] the planes in its fleet after German cities and towns or federal states, with a rule of thumb that the aeroplane make, size, or route would correspond roughly to the relative size or importance of the city or town it was named after.

This tradition continued, with two notable exceptions, until 2010: The first was an [[Airbus A340-300]] registered D-AIFC, named "[[Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador|Gander]]/[[Halifax Regional Municipality|Halifax]]", after two Canadian cities along the standard flight path from Europe to North America. It became the first Lufthansa aeroplane named after a non-German city. The name commemorates the hospitality of the communities of Gander and Halifax, which served as improvised safe havens for the passengers and crew of the multitude of international aircraft unable to return to their originating airports during [[Operation Yellow Ribbon]] after the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]]. The other aircraft not named after a German city was an [[Airbus A321-100]] registered as D-AIRA, which was designated ''Finkenwerder'' in honor of the Airbus facility in the district of [[Finkenwerder|Hamburg-Finkenwerder]],<ref name="lhtaufnamen2">[http://lh-taufnamen.de/lufthansa/ lh-taufnamen.de – Lufthansa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115210604/https://www.lh-taufnamen.de/lufthansa/ |date=15 January 2018 }} retrieved 20 June 2016</ref> where about 40% of Airbus narrowbody models are manufactured.

In February 2010, Lufthansa announced that its first two [[Airbus A380]]s would be named ''Frankfurt am Main'' (D-AIMA) and ''München'' (D-AIMB) after Lufthansa's two hub airports. Subsequent A380 aircraft were named after other Lufthansa Group hub airports ''[[Zürich]]'', ''Wien'' ([[Vienna]]) and ''Brüssel'' ([[Brussels]]) and the major German cities of ''[[Düsseldorf]]'' and ''[[Berlin]]''. The remaining A380s were named after [[Star Alliance]] hub cities ''Tokyo'', ''Beijing'', ''Johannesburg'', ''New York'', ''San Francisco'' and ''Delhi''. However, D-AIMN ''San Francisco'' was renamed ''Deutschland'' (Germany) in 2014.<ref name="lhtaufnamen2" />

As of 2014, there are several short- and long-haul aircraft in Lufthansa's fleet that do not bear any name. They either never received one or their former one has been given to a newer aircraft, which was the case for several [[Boeing 747-400]]s. For example, the former ''Bayern'' ([[Bavaria]]), a Boeing 747-400 still in active service, lost that name to a new [[Boeing 747-8]]I.<ref name="lhtaufnamen2" />