Airbus A330-200 - LTU
LTU was a German charter airline founded in 1955 as Lufttransport Union. The next year the name was changed to Lufttransport-Unternehmen. The first widebody aircraft in the fleet was the Lockheed TriStar, in service from 1973. The TriStars were replaced by Boeing 767s and McDonnell Douglas MD-11s and in 1994 the first of eightteen Airbus A330 aircraft joined the fleet. Between 1994 and 1998 the airline acquired eight A330-300s. Ten A330-200s were delivered from 2001 through 2008.
The red roofs of LTU-aircraft were a common sight at LTU's homebase Düsseldorf International Airport (photo below), but shortly before the takeover of LTU by Air Berlin in 2007 the airline adopted a colour scheme with a white roof, but still a lot of red painted on the fuselages of the aircraft (large photo). In 2008 Air Berlin dropped the LTU-brand.
Both photographs are taken at Düsseldorf.
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