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Larger, quieter, cleaner: New regional jet for Lufthansa

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More seat comfort, better environmental data and high efficiency: Bombardier CRJ900 starts flight operations at Lufthansa CityLine

Lufthansa CityLine, a partner in the Lufthansa Regional group, is introducing a new aircraft type. The 84-seater Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) from Canadian manufacturer Bombardier will become the new flagship of the CRJ fleet of Lufthansa CityLine. The first new member of the fleet was officially welcomed today at the airport of Munich. In a ceremony the jet was named after the Bavarian city of Pfaffenhofen. The CRJ900 Regional Jet has a larger cabin than its predecessor model in the CRJ200 series. Passengers enjoy much more space on board. Modern, comfortable seats and greater distance between seats provide more legroom and comfort during the flight, while additional storage capacity has been created for baggage. The interior of the new aircraft was already completed in the new cabin design of Lufthansa’s European fleet. “With the new aircraft model, Lufthansa CityLine is taking major step forward economically and technologically and is thus ideally prepared to face up to the future and the competition”, said Dr. Thomas Dräger, managing director of Lufthansa Cityline GmbH. The new jet offers product improvements which, in particular, are of benefit to the passengers. “The jet engines, which are particularly quiet and have low fuel consumption, improve both the environmental values and the efficiency and economy of our flight operations”, Dräger added. The CRJ900 complies with Lufthansa’s high standards in terms of economic efficiency and environmental compatibility. Emissions and noise are well below international limiting values, fuel consumption has been reduced considerably. “A level of fuel consumption of only 3.5 litres per passenger and 100 flight-kilometers is possible under optimal conditions”, according to Dräger. Such an excellent figure is usually only possible with long-range operation of wide-bodied aircraft. Lufthansa CityLine will introduce a total of twelve new CRJ900s by the end of the year. They will replace older models of the 50-seat CRJ200, which are being phased out gradually. The first destinations which can regularly welcome the new member of the Lufthansa regional fleet are the airports in Munich, Brussels, Lyon, Münster/Osnabrück, Nice, Oslo and Geneva. The Bombardier CRJ900 is 36.4 metres long and has a wing-span of 24.9 metres. It reaches a top speed of 820 km/h and has a maximum altitude of 12,500 metres. The maximum take-off weight is 38 tons, it has a range of 2,100 kilometres. Lufthansa CityLine is the second largest airline in the Lufthansa group behind Lufthansa German Airlines. It is a 100-percent member of the German Lufthansa AG Group and a partner in the Lufthansa Regional alliance. Air Dolomiti, Augsburg Airways, Contact Air and Eurowings are further partners. In addition to direct links between regional airports via the Frankfurt and Munich hubs, Lufthansa Regional offers connections to the world‘s largest route network – that of the Star Alliance. Lufthansa CityLine has a total of 2,500 employees, the majority of them at the company’s headquarters in Cologne. In 2005, Lufthansa CityLine transported around 6.5 million passengers with its 80 regional jets.

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