On January 16, Lufthansa’s Boeing 747-400 with the registration D-ABTK operated the Frankfurt to Tokyo/Haneda LH716 flight. Normally, the more recent Boeing 747-8 model is used for this service, and it’s been nearly one year and one month since a 747-400 was last scheduled on this route, back on December 16, 2022.
The Boeing 747-400 was once the flagship aircraft for Japanese airlines like Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA), but nowadays sightings of this model in Japan are rare. Asiana Airlines occasionally uses the 747-400 for its Tokyo/Narita to Seoul/Incheon route, yet no airline consistently operates it on Japanese routes.
The 747-400 has a total length of 70.66 meters and a wingspan of 64.44 meters, making it slightly smaller than the 747-8 model (76.3 meters long and 68.40 meters in wingspan). Lufthansa’s 747-400 that flew in this time features a three-class configuration with 67 business class seats, 32 premium economy seats, and 272 economy seats, totaling 371 seats while the regularly flown 747-8 version offers a four-class layout with 8 first class seats, 80 business, 32 premium economy, and 244 economy seats, adding up to 364 seats. Both aircraft have business class on the upper deck.
Flight LH716 departed from Frankfurt at 1:58 PM local time on January 15 and arrived at Tokyo/Haneda at 10:29 AM Japan time on January 16. It then returned to Frankfurt as flight LH717, leaving Tokyo/Haneda at 12:36 PM.
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