Bangladesh, Oct. 22 -- Lufthansa has wrapped up 23 years of Airbus A340-600 operations, with its final scheduled service touching down at Frankfurt Airport from Washington Dulles International on the morning of October 19.

The farewell flight, LH419, drew heavy attention from aviation enthusiasts both online and at the two airports involved. Lufthansa marked the occasion by handing passengers a souvenir booklet to commemorate the type's final journey.

According to flight-tracking data, the aircraft departed Washington Dulles at 7:08 pm on October and landed back in Frankfurt around 8:30 am the following day after a transatlantic crossing of just over seven hours.

A flight-tracking service said on social media that roughly 871,000 user...