FLIGHT: Frankfurt > San Francisco

The A340-600 left Frankfurt this morning at 9.30 am for the first leg of its second week of route proving. Following a very successful first week, the aircraft now manned by a Lufthansa crew, is flying toward San Francisco which it is expected to reach in some 11 hours.  It will then fly to several Lufthansa destinations such as Montreal and Vancouver in Canada. Lufthansa, which has ordered 10 A340-600s, will receive its first aircraft of the type in mid-2003.