Special liveries of German airlines: Lufthansa, Condor, Eurowings, TUIfly and more

A Lufthansa jet with an anniversary design, a Condor Airbus in the look of the early sixties, the black-and-yellow BVB aircraft from Eurowings: special liveries of German airlines are among the most popular subjects at the fence. Because they usually sit on only a single aircraft, they are also hard to plan around. This overview shows you which special liveries are or were flying at Lufthansa, Condor, Eurowings, TUIfly and other German airlines, which categories exist and how to get them in front of your lens deliberately.

The short answer

Most special liveries in Germany are flown by Lufthansa – from Star Alliance jets and the retro Boeing 747-8 to the anniversary aircraft for the 100th anniversary in 2026. Condor has a retro A320, a breast cancer awareness Airbus and an Eintracht Frankfurt aircraft, Eurowings the team Airbus of Borussia Dortmund as well as destination and campaign designs. TUIfly was known for years for colorful advertising aircraft and today flies mainly hotel brand designs. Smaller leisure airlines such as Sundair, Marabu or Discover hardly rely on special paint schemes.

A warning up front: special liveries change constantly. The information in this article is based on publicly maintained fleet lists as of spring to summer 2026. Before you plan a trip around a specific design, check the registration on the day.

What kinds of special liveries exist

Before we get to individual airlines, a look at the categories is worthwhile. They help you estimate how long a design will probably fly.

Category	Typical example	How long it usually stays	Painted or vinyl
Retro	Lufthansa 747-8 D-ABYT, Condor A320 D-AICH	often many years	mostly fully painted
Anniversary	Lufthansa “100 Years”, TUIfly “50 Years”	one to several years	both possible
Alliance	Lufthansa’s Star Alliance jets	many years	painted
Sports / club	BVB at Eurowings, Eintracht Frankfurt at Condor	tied to the partnership	both possible
Advertising / destination	Hotel brands at TUIfly, “Salzburger Land” at Eurowings	months to a few years	often vinyl
Message	Lovehansa, “FlyPink” at Condor	varies	both possible

How retro and anniversary designs work in general is described in the articles on retro liveries and anniversary liveries. The difference between stuck-on vinyl and real paint is explained in Vinyl or paint.

Lufthansa: the largest selection

Lufthansa is the first address for livery hunters in Germany. Since 2018 the airline has flown in its current design: white fuselage, dark blue tail, the crane on a dark blue instead of a yellow background. Against this calm backdrop, special paint schemes stand out especially.

100 years of Lufthansa

Deutsche Luft Hansa was founded in 1926, so in 2026 the group celebrates its centennial. According to the fleet list, several aircraft wear an anniversary design, including:

• the Boeing 787-9 D-ABPU “Berlin” (since December 2025),
• the A320neo D-AING “Kerpen” (since January 2026) and D-AIND “Unna” (since February 2026),
• the Airbus A350-900 D-AIXL “Rostock” (since February 2026),
• the A321neo D-AIEM “Hamm” with the design “A Century Since Takeoff” (since March 2026).

According to the same list, there is also the A321 D-AISZ, which has worn a retro livery since February 2026. Other long-haul jets have also received new paint in the anniversary year; details differ depending on the source, so we name only the well-documented aircraft here. The anniversary jets fly all over the network – you are most likely to see the short- and medium-haul aircraft at the hubs Frankfurt and Munich as well as on domestic routes.

Retro jumbo and milestones

A classic is the Boeing 747-8 D-ABYT, which has flown in a retro livery since March 2015. It picks up an earlier Lufthansa look and is a perennial favorite in spotter photos. Which 747 variants exist and how to recognize the Boeing 747-8 is explained in the guide Identifying Boeing 747 variants.

Also a 747-8 is D-ABYP “Nordrhein-Westfalen”, which has been marked as the 1,500th Boeing 747 built since June 2014. The A321neo D-AIEQ “Münster” has commemorated Lufthansa’s 600th Airbus aircraft since May 2023.

Star Alliance, Lovehansa and Help Alliance

Lufthansa is a founding member of Star Alliance and flies several aircraft in the alliance livery. According to the fleet list, these include the A319 D-AIBH, D-AIBI and D-AIBJ, the A320s D-AIUA, D-AIZH, D-AIZM and D-AIZN and the A340-300 D-AIGN, D-AIGP and D-AIGV. How the alliance designs of Star Alliance, oneworld and SkyTeam differ is shown in the article Alliance liveries.

With a social message flies the A320neo D-AINY “Lingen”, in the Lovehansa design in rainbow colors since June 2022. The A321neo D-AIEP has worn a Help Alliance design, the group’s aid organization, since December 2024. You will find more on such designs under Pride liveries.

Past Lufthansa designs

For the 2014 FIFA World Cup, part of the fleet appeared as “Fanhansa”, and after the five-star award from Skytrax in 2017, an A320 and a 747-8 received “5 Starhansa” titles. Both campaigns were time-limited and are history today.

Lufthansa Cargo

The freight subsidiary Lufthansa Cargo also relies on special paint schemes. According to the fleet list, the Boeing 777F D-ALFI has worn the design “Cargo Human Care” since October 2020, and D-ALFG a design on “Sharkskin Technology” since October 2023. Earlier campaigns ran on MD-11Fs and other 777Fs, such as “100 Years Air Cargo” or a farewell design for the MD-11. You catch freighters mainly in Frankfurt, often at off-peak times.

Condor: retro “Hans” and five stripes

At Condor, even the standard livery is eye-catching: since April 2022 the aircraft have worn colored stripes in five variants – sunshine yellow, red, blue, green and beige, internally called Sunshine, Passion, Sea, Island and Beach. For collectors that means: even without a special livery, Condor offers five different looks.

According to the fleet list, Condor currently wears genuine special liveries on three Airbus A320s:

• D-AICH, nicknamed “Hans”: a retro design in the style of the early 1960s since April 2019.
• D-AICS: the “Breast Cancer Awareness” livery, also called “FlyPink”, since September 2024, as a sign for breast cancer screening.
• D-ASGE: in the design of Eintracht Frankfurt since October 2025. Further club aircraft are presented in the article Football and sports special liveries.

Condor classics that no longer fly

Condor has a long tradition of special designs, many of which have since disappeared. The Boeing 757-300 D-ABON “Willi” wore a livery for the 50th company anniversary from 2006 until its retirement in October 2025. The Boeing 767-300ER D-ABUM “Achim” flew from 2012 to 2022 in a retro design of the 1980s. As early as the 1990s, the artist James Rizzi painted the 757-200 D-ABNF as the “Rizzi Bird” for the 40th anniversary – today a piece of livery history you can only find in archive photos. More such art projects are shown in Art on aircraft.

Eurowings: BVB and campaigns

Eurowings has been a partner of Borussia Dortmund again since 2016 and has flown a specially designed BVB Airbus ever since. The A320 D-AEWM has flown as the BVB’s “team Airbus” since February 2025; before that it wore a BVB fan design from 2022 to 2025. An earlier BVB A320, D-AIZR, was in service from 2016 to 2022.

According to the fleet list, there are also:

• the A320 D-AEWP with the design “Salzburger Land” (since September 2023),
• the A320neo D-AENE with “Yes to Europe” (since April 2024),
• the A321neo D-AEEA in the design “Eurowings Holidays” (since September 2025),
• several A320neos with campaign designs like “#makechangefly” or “Premium BIZ inside”.

Typical of Eurowings: advertising and destination designs changed frequently in recent years. Earlier designs like “Europa-Park”, “Croatia full of life” or rental car advertising have since disappeared, and quite a few of the aircraft concerned now fly with Maltese 9H registrations for Eurowings Europe. How to follow such re-registrations is covered under Re-registrations.

TUIfly: from gummy bears to hotel brands

Hardly any German airline has put as many advertising aircraft in the air as TUIfly. Between about 2007 and the end of the 2010s, Boeing 737s flew with designs for Haribo Goldbears and Tropifrutti, Bärenmarke, Deutsche Bahn (ICE and Regio), Hannover 96, the ARD television lottery, CEWE photo book and Nuremberg Airport, among others. Many of them had wordplay names like “HaribAIR” or “GlücksbringAIR”.

Today it is quieter. According to the fleet list, the pure Boeing 737 fleet still wears these designs:

Registration	Type	Design	Since
D-ATUZ	Boeing 737-800	RIU Hotels & Resorts	February 2016
D-ABKM	Boeing 737-800	TUI BLUE	May 2021
D-ABKN	Boeing 737-800	Robinson Club	May 2021
D-AMAH	Boeing 737 MAX 8	“50 Years”	May 2024

According to the list, the “CEWE photo book” design on D-ABMV ended in November 2025. If you want to tell the 737 MAX 8 from the 737-800, you will find the features in the guide Telling Boeing 737 generations apart.

Discover, Sundair, Marabu and others

The smaller airlines hardly rely on special liveries:

• Discover Airlines flew an A320 with a sticker for the inflight entertainment program from spring 2024 to early 2025. More interesting is the change from the former Eurowings Discover design to its own look: the phasing-out A330-200s were not repainted; only the Eurowings titles were removed from them.
• Sundair had a special paint scheme in service from 2020 to 2025 with the A320 D-ANNA and the design “Katta macht Urlaub” (“Ring-tailed lemur goes on vacation”). Since late 2024 the fleet has flown in the design of majority owner Schauinsland.
• Marabu Airlines flies with Estonian ES registrations and is listed in common fleet overviews without special designs.

Such changes between the old and new brand worlds are a collecting area of their own. What to watch for with mixed forms is explained in the article Recognizing hybrid liveries; how airlines switch their design completely is shown in When airlines change their design.

How to spot German special liveries deliberately

A special livery is tied to exactly one registration. That makes the search plannable if you proceed systematically.

For Lufthansa designs, Frankfurt and Munich are the best places to go. In Frankfurt, the Zeppelinheim viewing platform offers a good view of landings, in Munich the visitors’ hill (Besucherhügel). You often see Eurowings designs in Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn or Hamburg, for example from the Düsseldorf Airport observation deck. Condor has its home airport in Frankfurt but also flies from many other German airports. You will find general search tips in the guide Finding special liveries.

What to watch out for

• Fleet lists are snapshots. Designs are removed, aircraft change operators or are retired. What is written here may have changed since press time.
• Vinyl is not forever. Stuck-on advertising often disappears after a few months. If such a design appeals to you, do not wait too long.
• Aircraft get swapped. Airlines rearrange rotations at short notice. A design planned to Hamburg in the morning may fly to Vienna in the evening.
• Document your sightings. A properly labeled photo with registration and date is worth its weight in gold later when the design has disappeared. How to go about it is in Collecting and documenting special liveries.
• Stay on public areas. Even for the rarest design, the same applies: do not enter restricted areas. What is allowed is summarized in Is plane spotting allowed?.

A look across the border

Once you have ticked off the German designs, neighboring countries offer further targets. Austrian, Swiss and Edelweiss have retro and anniversary designs of their own, which the article Special liveries in Austria and Switzerland presents. And if you want to know which designs have made aviation history, drop by the legendary airline liveries.

Conclusion

German airlines offer an astonishing range of special liveries. Lufthansa provides the largest selection with anniversary jets, Star Alliance aircraft, Lovehansa and the retro 747. Condor scores with retro charm and a club aircraft, Eurowings with the BVB Airbus, and TUIfly keeps the tradition of brand aircraft alive with hotel designs. Because much changes quickly, it pays to chase designs promptly and document every sighting properly.