Luxair presented two new Boeing 737-8s at a ceremony in its hangar at Luxembourg Airport on 28 August 2026. Air Data News reports that LX-LBC had entered commercial service on 15 August and that LX-LBD left Seattle on 25 August. Both are configured for 186 passengers, and they are the first factory-new 737-8s delivered straight to Luxair under its Boeing order.

Four MAXs, not two

The two new jets join two 737-8s Luxair has operated on lease since 2023, LX-LBK and LX-LBL, which were built in 2018 and were originally intended for Air Italy. That makes four 737-8s in service. Air Data News says the MAX fleet averages under five years old, while the older 737s in the fleet average about 14.

What is on order

According to Air Data News, the firm Boeing order now stands at eight 737-8s and four 737-10s, after Luxair converted four 737-7s to 737-8s and firmed two 737-10 options at Farnborough in July 2026. It also has a firm order for nine Embraer E2s, six E195-E2s and three E190-E2s. The first E195-E2 arrived in November 2025 and four are in service. The first E190-E2 is expected at the end of 2028.

Luxair values the Boeing and Embraer renewal and expansion programme at more than €1 billion. ch-aviation, reporting the chief executive Gilles Feith's announcement on 28 August, quoted the plan as replacing the "entire fleet by the mid-2030s", with the €1 billion figure excluding the aircraft already delivered.

The fleet today

Air Data News counts 25 aircraft: four 737-8s, three 737-700s, four 737-800s, ten Dash 8-400 turboprops and four E195-E2s. ch-aviation's list of the same fleet gives the four Embraers as E190-E2s. Air Data News says E195-E2 and dates the first one's arrival to November 2025, so I have used its figure.

Neither report says when the Dash 8-400s will go. "Entire fleet" is the phrase ch-aviation used, and the Dash 8-400s are part of today's fleet, but I have not found anyone putting a date on them.

On my screen

The BBBRadar desk unit shows type, registration, route where one is filed, callsign and altitude. On 27 September 2026 it showed a Luxair Dash 8-400, LX-LGM, as LGL452C, Manchester to Luxembourg, at 25,000 feet. The device shortens the type to "DHC-8-40".

Eight minutes earlier it had shown a Luxair 737-700, LX-LBT, as LGL4EW, Dublin to Luxembourg, at 37,000 feet. That is one of the three 737-700s in the fleet figure above. So within eight minutes the screen held the turboprop and an older Boeing, both part of the fleet the renewal covers, and no new MAX.

What I have not confirmed

I have not found a date for the Dash 8-400s or the 737-700s leaving the fleet, or a statement of which types the new jets replace one for one.

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