Lufthansa crew to wear Trachtenmode

"Lufthansa is thus not only setting the mood for the fifth Bavarian season, the 'Oktoberfest'. We also want to demonstrate that we feel at home at our southern hub and in Bavaria", said Karl Ulrich Garnadt, Group Representative and Head of Hub Management Munich.

In the history of Lufthansa, there was one other occasion when the uniform was replaced by traditional costumes: in 1957 the airline reported: “Lufthansa stewardesses in genuine Dirndls will serve passengers during the period of Munich’s ‘Oktoberfest’ from 17th September to 2nd October on flights from New York to Hamburg and the passengers from London to Munich from 21st September to 5th October“. On these routes, blonde female flight attendants wore light blue Dirndls, while their dark-haired colleagues wore pink dresses.

The origin of the word "cockpit" extends back hundreds of years. Originally, the word was used to describe the pit or enclosed area where cockfights were conducted. As a name for the scene of such grisly matches, which were most probably conducted first in China, the word migrated west and in the 16th century the word appeared in English. By the 1700s, cockpit was used as a metaphor for any scene of combat, although in naval parlance the word was used to describe the area below decks on a man-o-war where the wounded were evacuated. World War I aviators adopted the word cockpit in 1914 to describe the cramped place where the pilot sits. It has enjoyed this common use since, to include the more capacious area of a large jetliner where, instead of conflict, aircrews coordinate their actions.