Lufthansa Technik Evaluating 747-8 Spares

Lufthansa Technik, which this week is using a Boeing 747-8 test aircraft, N6067U, for entry-into-service preparations, is evaluating which of the 45,000 spare parts it will buy as part of its initial provisioning. As parts continually incorporate higher-cost materials and technology, their prices increase, so Lufthansa is balancing which parts to provision to ensure operational readiness, ...