On Wednesday, European plane-manufacturer, Airbus gave Deutsche Lufthansa AG its first A380 superjumbo, allowing Germany's largest airline to carry over 520 passengers on a single airplane.

Lufthansa said that the delivery of the Euro300 million ($370 million) plane, the biggest in the record of civil aviation, arrives three years late as Airbus has fought back to deal with manufacture impediments.

Lufthansa said that the first of its 15 A380s will be put in use starting from June 11, flying from Frankfurt to Tokyo.

It arrives at a hard time for Lufthansa that is engaged in a sour salary disagreement with its pilots, experiences a demanding economic milieu and has to put up with air traffic interruptions owing to Iceland's incessantly erupting volcano.

The airline anticipates that the plane will increase its seating capacity and to be more cost-effective than the opponent Boeing 747-400.

Airbus Chief Executive, Tom Enders representatively offered the plane to Lufthansa's CEO Wolfgang Mahrhuber at an Airbus manufacturing site in Hamburg, where the planes' interiors have been created.

Lufthansa is said to be the second European airline to get an A380, after Air France got its first superjumbo last fall and now runs it between Paris and New York.