Lufthansa Sends A340 To Help Afghanistan Evacuation

[@damonreynolds6775]

Great humanitarian work, and not just Lufty. Multiple American carriers are also helping move evacuees from various points once the military takes them out of Kabul.

[@cwg73160]

Yes. Through the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, President Biden activated a number of US airlines to help with the evacuation of Afghanistan. Despite whatever people think how positive or negative the situation is, Afghans are being transported away from the new regime.

[@gooner72]

The RAF removed over 6,000 from Afghanistan, that's second only to the US.🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪✌✌✌

[@PedroConejo1939]

It's good to see the A400M being put to use so well, alongside the A340, a plane which apparently, no-one wants anymore.

[@Likeusb1]

Good on Lufthansa for so quickly being able to help out and doing so.

[@aviationofnepal178]

Yes shame on other airlines who fail on this

[@ViktorFromDK]

Well Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and Danish Air Transport (DAT) did the same and where called in on (If i have understanded the danish goverment correct) an sunday and was in Islamabad on monday to first fly danes and those ho worked for Denmark and then help other danish allies go get there citizens get there people out

[@TaroLeung]

American united and omni airlines did the same

[@williamerazo3921]

Nah just €€

[@Likeusb1]

@@williamerazo3921 Not necessarily

[@MisterAviation]

I love the a340-300 and 200 and I am happy Lufthansa is putting that aircraft in good use.

[@Kalvinjj]

That's an amazing end of career for the A340, I know some will keep operating but it's sure a last years good service. As many others I sure hope they manage to deploy the A380s and 747s too, wonder where they could fly to.

[@julosx]

Lufthansa still holds 16 A-340-642 with more capacity than the 313 ones. They could have been sent there.

[@p1xlb522]

Good on them helping with the situation, also we avgeeks got to see a 4 engine tube flying once more

[@lajoyalobos2009]

Good to see. Lufthansa does a lot of humanitarian work, including an organization known as Cargo Human Care, founded by one of their cargo pilots (whom now is recently retired). The US has also activated it's Civil Reserve Air Fleet (recruited several US carriers to do similar routes from American bases to other places). It's an incredible mess, but good to see people doing what they can.

[@typchannel]

We need the a380 all economic class seats! More than 800 seats lol

[@alangeerts9124]

@@knownothing5518 just fill an a380f with people no seats, like the us did with their c 17

[@pocketdynamo5787]

This whole effort was pulled off on very short notice. Refitting a plane in such a way takes way too much time.

[@Albert_PL]

Lufthansa did the right choice on this

[@jstriggsr]

I'm glad someone is doing it right

[@strafrag1]

Great for LUFTY, City of Frankfurt & the German Govt. Well done!

[@dokathechosen]

Pray for Afghanistan.

[@fredrick8691]

Amazing to see Lufthansa and the German government standing by all of those citizens.

[@stephenjohnson2195]

A massive well done to the German Government 👏

[@janakachandrasekera39]

Lufthansa rising upto the occasion with renowned precision. Lufthansa=LH=Let's Help! Keep up the good work on this humanitarion crisis. I salute the decision makers,crews,ground handling professionals,maintenance professionals,planning professionals for their untiring efforts. Wish you and yours all the best during the on going health pandemic and now the humanitarion crisis.

[@jnkellogg737]

Great work from the Germany government and the airline. As an American, I wished the US would do more. I feel for all that are over there and hope for a safe and speedy evacuation for all that need to get away from a really bad situation that could have been prevented.

[@ahmadtheaviationlover1937]

Bravo Lufthansa for your amazing work!!

[@YesterchipsMIG]

Maybe the last big appearance for the 340. It is a good one.

[@julosx]

A 340s are flying on many destination these days, mainly transatlantic.

[@lugovoiarena]

Via Almaty where DLH has a mini base. Kudos to the German government and people for compassion/solace. With the US, UK dragging their feet, and Estonia agreeing to accept up to 10 (ten) refu.. wait a sec are they serious?! ..refugees, I applaud to Germans. Thank you

[@2889Daniël]

A340, one of my preferred planes, powerful, reliable and excellent for the job!

[@itzfaroff456]

Using the 747-8 would be pretty good too

[@supertyfon1736]

Good thing these "storage" aircraft had another purpose rather then being scrapped, It maybe a quad jet but the route length isn't an issue it's getting people out to safety.

[@julosx]

"Stotage" aircraft ? You're wrong, they fly every day of the year. I daily see many of them on FlightRadar24, and not only Lufthansa ones.

[@supertyfon1736]

@@julosx My mistake but you don't see many A340's as much. But hey at least some of these quads are still playing a roll.

[@MatiiCripps]

now this is what we like to see

[@Agent_Phoenix_Animations]

That's is good by Lufthansa to Help then. I am German and I'm proud of Them.

[@l2etranger]

Humanity.

[@Delta-zt6bn]

I think it’s great Deal that Lufthansa is helping with the evacuations it’s great to see them doing that

[@pauleyd80]

Excellent work 👏🏻

[@vedantgorivale6061]

Long live Lufthansa and doing a very great job for people of Afghanistan.

[@dougharris7665]

Bill Withers would be proud of the efforts of Germany and Lufthansa..." lean on me when you're not strong......" !

[@PineappleSkip]

My first flight in an A340 was Emirates out of Kabul. It was overbooked to blazes and I was upgraded to first, along with numerous other lucky punters. Won’t be doing that again soon :/ They weren’t that reliable and there were many cancellations.

[@nurrizadjatmiko21]

👌👏 to Lufthansa

[@MSRTA_Productions]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Thank you.

[@barbaracameron5610]

Major US airlines are doing same as Luftansa. I know for one AA, they are flying into places after aircraft left Afghanistan. AA is bringing the Afghans to the US. Some of my friends are working the flights as crew to the US

[@순살뿌링]

Korean government also sent three military jets to bring Afghanistan people to korea

[@rmyerscmi]

Wonder how long it would take to set up a couple all-economy A380’s or 747-400’s? Scavenge the extra seating units from recently retired aircraft.

[@etiennemessage7257]

Probably half a day per aircraft a buddy of mine worked for a company in frankfurt that provided this service to airlines

[@Sleepyhead101]

I think Emirates can just use the entire lower decks of their A380s. Being based in close proximity to Afghanistan also helps.

[@___Me_]

The german government does excellent crisis management in these situations. Got stuck in locked down Bolivia in march 2020 and it only took a week to get a repatriation flight back to Germany. Many other countries took weeks or months to get organized.

[@YTYY]

Your videos are exiting and really nice to watch but its always the same airlines you show. Is it possible to bring variety in this case?

[@wunexec]

Outstanding

[@brightlineflorida1221]

Send em' the 747s, Lufthansa.

[@MSRTA_Productions]

They can't send large aircraft like the 747 or A380, or even the AN225. They find it risky

[@nurrizadjatmiko21]

@@MSRTA_Productions i agree

[@aviationchannel6204]

@@MSRTA_Productions Imagine if they use the AN225. It will probably fit 1500 people.

[@chingweixion621]

@@aviationchannel6204 not possible. Although the AN225 can take off with the weight of 1500 passengers, it does not have the floor space to fit that many people. You can probably fit only 500-600 people. The A380 on the other hand has 2 deck and can fit 800 passengers with seats. If you remove the seats, and fill every single inch of the floor space, you could probably fit 1500 people on board, but the aircraft doesn't have the MTOW capability to take off with that many people onboard.

[@bali27]

@@chingweixion621 if the c17 could have flown with over 800 then how come an an225 only carry 600 people?

[@AntoinneBarnes]

it's simply another reason I consider Lufthansa one of the best airlines today! The government asked and Lufthansa quickly made it happen! It's a travesty the U.S. didn't plan better for the exit but it def gives me hope to see so many stepping up to help!!

[@rossmason8812]

That’s putting the a340 to good use.

[@MarcusNesbitt4]

The moor the merrier. The more aircraft we can get going into afghanistan or to airports where people are being dropped off at, the better.

[@VGWKI]

Great video.

[@Eyes_On_Sky]

Great effort

[@rickleger3528]

great effort buy all

[@travelinginfantryveteran5439]

Hawaiian airlines deployed 2 of there a330 also

[@abdullahsaviation]

Please also make one video on SAS repatriation flights to Islamabad to collect the Afghan refugees arriving in Pakistan through PIA flights to Kabul

[@descend_aviation]

Me casually thinking: so when the C17 takes off will the people move out of the way or run after the plane? Or they try to stop the plane. Or something else idk

[@akashbhardwaj7835]

Huge respect for Germany✌✌

[@petkoganachev6291]

Take a look at GlobalX airlines (global crossing airlines) they flew 8 fights between Kabul and Dushanbe

[@flopi04lp96]

what about the swiss 777?

[@theta3404]

Good job DLH!

[@06emglobal]

Imagine the A380 at Kabul flying out people on the Ex Hi Fly plane !!!

[@williamerazo3921]

Germans 1st flight was early titanic lifeboats

[@planerunner4020]

Ehh well Qatar, British, and Oman air sent more than 5 planes each just for those evacuation

[@andremp03]

In cases like this, the A380 would have been helpful in terms of capacity, but guessing the conditions at that airport was unsuitable

[@julosx]

Maybe it's a matter of runway length ?

[@yuniverse1]

@@julosx maybe

[@mofkfox615]

Amazing what the Germand Govertment is doing To Afgan people..👋👋👋

[@misterbig9025]

Have people forgotten about COVID?

[@spongebubatz]

This is a very unique and uncommon situation

[@BagusWidyanto_HappyIn1997]

What do I think? Send in the A380 😎

[@putrapratama-sq8hu]

Good idea, but no uzbek airport can be safely landed by A380 sadly..

[@davidfs1]

i thought lufthansa was a bad airline because they canceled a flight to somewhere i was realy exited to go to like, 50 bajilion times in a row. but, i gues i geus that they're good because of their efforts to evacuate people from afganhastan during that war

[@topiasr628]

I was fully expecting to scroll down to racist ramblings in the comments. So pleased to see your community is not like that! Well done to all the carriers helping in this required effort despite the total absence of a plan until now

[@coldpizzasoda8641]

They should use a few A380s

[@faisalofficialchannel6480]

Hello there

[@galacticasia7125]

General Kenobi

[@Sleepyhead101]

Job well done Germany

[@williamerazo3921]

No A380s and 747s

[@LMRailfan]

What if Lufthansa sends MD-11 to help Afghanistan Evacuation

[@sheereenaali8448]

They only have MD-11F aircraft.

[@PujanPatel001]

Indian Air Force's C-17, C-130 and Air India's a320s are also flying daily trips from Kabul & Tajikistan and getting the refugees to New Delhi. Please mention that too like how Lufthansa got mentioned 😃

[@sheereenaali8448]

The only reason (I think) the Lufthansa one is mentioned is because the aircraft type (A340) is on the verge of retirement (the production of the A340 ended 10 years ago but the engines are still in production).

[@BrokebackBob]

Why don't you talk about the American airlines that are doing the same thing as Lufthansa?

[@explorenaked]

Because it's currently not fashionable for media outlets to say anything positive about the USA. Remember...America is pure evil...until America is needed.

[@syedhamdan1622]

America doesn't have feelings, it only has interests...

[@syedhamdan1622]

@Shanghai oh shut up you would die for oil you fat obese people

[@2889Daniël]

Stella bikes...."Clean Cockpit" technology....Wat een grap....LOL

[@MrAlwaysBlue]

Its not actually flying into Afghanistan. I'm sure scores of other airliners are helping out.

[@spongebubatz]

So Kabul isn’t in Afghanistan then?

[@MrAlwaysBlue]

@@spongebubatz Watch it again. Its flying from Tashkent, not Kabul

[@spongebubatz]

@@MrAlwaysBlue it’s flying via Tashkent. VIA! It lands in Tashkent and then flies on to Kabul. Makes me wonder who watched the video and who didn’t. Edit: Look at 0:36!

[@MrAlwaysBlue]

@@spongebubatz Look again, but more importantly listen. At 0:46. Lufthansa not flying into Afghanistan. They are picking up people flown out to Uzbekistan by Luftwaffe A400M.

[@jimlee350]

Why don’t use A380 ?

[@sheereenaali8448]

They retired them (I think)

[@benjaminh.7698]

They are way to slow and they are getting not enough people out of that country

[@ianstewartorr8455]

It would have been better if it was a A 380 if the runway is suitable

[@spongebubatz]

Unfortunately the A380 is unsuitable for such operations

[@ianstewartorr8455]

@@spongebubatz how do you know that

[@spongebubatz]

@@ianstewartorr8455 it’s too large and the whole operation would be unnecessarily complex and simply horrendous. At some point the usefulness of an A380 ends when being operated on certain missions. Imagine you want to move but instead of a transporter you use a tank twice the size or so, maybe the problem becomes clear

[@ianstewartorr8455]

@@spongebubatz it won’t be to large if the runway is long enough please explain how you came to your conclusion

[@spongebubatz]

@@ianstewartorr8455 the runway length doesn’t matter, THE A380 IS TOO BIG. Just read my comment again and think about the aspects I mentioned. Size doesn’t always matter, in this case it’s a restricting factor. There are simply aircraft more useful for such a task then the A380, BIGGEST ISN‘T BEST. Please understand it this time

[@wafflehorse1423]

The should have also sent the 747

[@sheereenaali8448]

The 747-8 Aircraft?

[@Kebria]

Nato states should send parked A380's.

[@PedroConejo1939]

Not into Kabul, too risky. Then the question becomes whether Tashkent can take them and whether any can be readied in time. A340s are doing a good job.

[@aviationenthusiast2002]

Good plan. If the evac works, then lufthansa looks good. If the taliban destroys it, they get the insurance

[@gautamsriswk7886]

why cant they use the a380 luftansa

[@flippintwit1337]

Perhaps too big/heavy to land there, + with all the other aircraft parked there and thousands of people on the airport crowding there.

[@spongebubatz]

Too heavy, unfitting for the job, not ready to fly, ... There are many reasons why an A380 isn’t the right aircraft for such a mission. Size isn’t everything

[@butternuggetplayz438]

This didn’t age well at all.

[@alexanderhall4281]

I wonder why they didn't use an A380 instead of A340.

[@naturalmystics-kd9vt]

We are all god children same human person Germany do what is right love every human being forget about race

[@Pilski]

Biden needs to see this!!!

[@iexist3153]

The A380 would use full if it could land and takeoff from the runway

[@VR-oq8nk]

da lol

[@karampuk1974]

In recap: LH is using old, ran down plane for the operation.

[@spongebubatz]

Lufthansa’s A340s aren’t too old for a commercial aircraft

[@karampuk1974]

@@spongebubatz flew on them few times (-300). Stained seats, didn't look too "fresh".

[@sheereenaali8448]

@@spongebubatz Yep the oldest A340 in the world is 30 years, the newest being just 10.

[@roystonpereira2887]

Europe is doomed😔

[@scanida5070]

Why‘s that?

[@swagger3992]

Sad no 747 and A380 have not been involved yet especially the 747