Lufthansa is reactivating the Airbus A 380 and will be using it again from summer next year.
The group announced this.
The reasons given are the sharp rise in demand for flight tickets and the delayed delivery of ordered aircraft.
The company is currently examining how many machines of the wide-bodied aircraft, which completed its world's first airport test in Frankfurt, will be used again.
Jochen Remert
Airport editor and correspondent Rhein-Main-Süd.
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Lufthansa currently has 14 Airbus A 380s, which are currently mothballed in Spain and France in so-called "deep storage".
Six of these aircraft have already been sold.
Eight Airbus A380s will remain part of the Lufthansa fleet for the time being.
The A 380 is the largest passenger aircraft in the world: it is 73 meters long and 24 meters high and offers space for 509 passengers at Lufthansa.
Apart from the reactivation, the Group will be strengthening its fleet with around 50 new Airbus A350, Boeing 787 and Boeing 777-900 long-haul aircraft and more than 60 new Airbus A320/321 over the next three years alone.