Customers can now book flights on a Lufthansa A380 and experience the airline's new flagship. Bookings for the intercontinental routes on which the world's largest passenger aircraft will be operated are now being taken.

The A380 will commence scheduled flights on June 11 on the Frankfurt-Tokyo route, replacing the current Boeing 747-400 service.

The first Airbus A380 to be delivered to Lufthansa will depart from Frankfurt - initially on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays - for Tokyo's Narita International Airport. The aircraft, bearing the name "Frankfurt am Main" will operate under flight number LH710. The return flight to Frankfurt (LH711) is scheduled for Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Once Lufthansa takes delivery of its second A380, the service will then operate daily starting August 4 as planned.

From August 25, according to the latest planning, Lufthansa's third A380 will fly from Frankfurt to Beijing three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

The return flight from the Chinese capital is scheduled in each case for the following day. A daily connection is planned from the end of October, when the fourth A380 joins the Lufthansa fleet. From October 25, the Lufthansa flagship is expected to be deployed thrice weekly (on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays) on the Frankfurt-Johannesburg route.

The return flight from South Africa to Frankfurt will depart the following day.