For the "heavenly" silver jubilee in the morning to Tel Aviv and back to Frankfurt, then in the afternoon to Athens and back again: even on his special day, the jubilarian does not allow himself a break, but brings up to 200 business and leisure travelers safely and comfortably to Israel and Greece.

Just normal everyday life for the extremely hard-working "Flying Ambassador" from Salzgitter. For exactly 25 years, the city in Lower Saxony has been represented by a Lufthansa aircraft on the air routes in Europe and the Middle East - now, for two years, "in its second generation" by an Airbus A321.

The "airy relationship" between Salzgitter and Lufthansa began on September 19, 1991, when Johanna Struck, the wife of the then mayor Hermann Struck, christened a Boeing 737-500 of the "Crane Line" with the name "Salzgitter" at Hanover Airport.

The twin-engine jet with the registration D-ABIM - "India-Mike" for short - provided loyal service for over two decades and represented the city with maximum reliability on routes within Germany and Europe.

In 2013, the first "Salzgitter" was decommissioned and sent to America for retirement. As part of a comprehensive fleet renewal, the city's name was transferred to a modern medium-haul Airbus the following year. It bears the aircraft identification D-AIDI (in pilot-speak "Delta-India").