SWISS Plans to Donate Last A340-300 to Transport Museum
The project faces technical and financial hurdles, with costs estimated at a high single-digit million figure and financing due by the end of 2026.
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At the beginning of 2028, the Swiss airline pulled its last Airbus A340 out of traffic. After that, the machine was given a new home: the Luzern Transport House. The transport of the 125-ton colliery will cost millions and requires a logistical masterpiece.
Swiss to retire A340-300s by early 2028
Swiss (LX, Zurich) has confirmed it will retire its last A340-300 by early 2028 as it continues the gradual phaseout of the type that began with the introduction of its A350-900s last October. The Lufthansa Group subsidiary hopes to move the final A340-300 to the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne in early 2028. Group CCO Dieter Vranckx told ch-aviation in April that the group was looking to retire all old quadjets in the “next two to three ye…
Swiss Airlines and the Swiss Transport Authority have announced a joint museum project for the last Airbus A340-300 of the Swiss fleet.
After having long maintained the intercontinental connections of the Swiss company, the last SWISS Airbus A340-300 could be preserved at the Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne. The ambition is to expose the aircraft from the beginning of 2028, but the operation remains suspended from funding of several million francs, administrative authorizations and resolution [...]
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