A highlight for fans of aviation and sustainability: the new Lufthansa Upcycling Collection 2.0 is now available from us. As with our first collection, we've upcycled a long-serving Lufthansa aircraft that's now been decommissioned. We've reused the high-quality materials to create exclusive lifestyle furniture. A very special aircraft - the Airbus A320, which has gone down in aviation history as "Papa Alpha" - was used to supply the materials.
This twin-engine jet was the first in a long line of A320s to become the Lufthansa Group's go-to for short-haul and medium-haul flights. "Papa Alpha" with the registration D-AIPA was flown from Toulouse to Frankfurt for delivery on 16 October 1989. She then operated exclusively for Lufthansa for the next 29 years, 8 months until she was decommissioned. It’s not surprising that Upcycling products enjoy such symbolic status: "Every piece has a story to tell, has flown tens of thousands of kilometres and has been through storms, lightning and hail", says Stefan Wolf, Deputy Head of the A320 fleet, in our awesome interview.