Lufthansa celebrates 60 years in the Swedish air travel market
On April 20, 1959, a Vickers Viscount aircraft took off from Hamburg, its destination Stockholm Bromma Airport. With that flight, Lufthansa inaugurated its first direct route to Sweden. Three years later, in 1962, traffic was moved to the newly built Stockholm Arlanda Airport – and the same year, for the first time a Swedish couple was married on a Lufthansa flight en route to Hamburg. In 1970, Lufthansa expanded its Swedish service, adding Gothenburg as a new destination. Today, the inaugural was commemorated, with a celebration of the German airline’s 60 years of service to Sweden.
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