{"id":343701,"date":"2026-01-06T20:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lufthansa-brand-turns-100\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:02:56","slug":"how-can-lufthansa-be-100-years-old-its-more-complicated-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=343701","title":{"rendered":"How Can Lufthansa Be 100 Years Old? It\u2019s More Complicated Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, German flag carrier Lufthansa is celebrating its 100th anniversary. However, those familiar with the life and times of the Cologne-based<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255964\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/star-alliance\/\"  >Star Alliance<\/a><\/span> founding member might like to point out that the airline, in its current form, has only existed since the mid-1950s. In truth, the story of Lufthansa&#8217;s centenary is a complicated one, but also one well worth exploring in order to understand how the airline got to where it is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A centenary celebration of sorts for the German flag carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,738,120,82,734,803],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-anniversary","category-europe","category-germany","category-lufthansa","category-lufthansa-group"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343702,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343701\/revisions\/343702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}