Eurowings

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Eurowings
IATA
EW		 ICAO
EWG		 Callsign
EUROWINGS
Founded 1993
Hubs Dusseldorf International Airport
Nuremberg Airport
Munich International Airport
Hanover Airport
Frequent flyer program Miles & More (in cooperation with Deutsche Lufthansa)
Fleet size 31
Destinations 38
Parent company Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Headquarters Dortmund, Germany
Key people Friedrich Wilhelm Weitholz (Chairman)
Website: http://www.eurowings.de

Eurowings Luftverkehrs AG is an airline based in Dortmund, Germany. It is a regional airline, part of Lufthansa Regional, operating scheduled domestic and regional services for Lufthansa. The headquarter is located at Dortmund Airport, but hubs are Dusseldorf International Airport, Nuremberg Airport, Munich International Airport and Hanover Airport. On 29th January 2008, plans were announced to merge low-cost airline operations of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and TUI Travel PLC (Germanwings, Eurowings, TUIfly) into a joint and independent holding company.[1]

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[edit] History

The airline was established in 1993 and started operations on 1 January 1994. It was formed by the merger of NFD Luftverkehrs AG of Nuremberg (founded in 1975) and RFG Regionalflug of Dortmund (founded in 1976). As at 31 December 2006, Lufthansa had a 49% shareholding in Eurowings, bringing the company into the Lufthansa Group fold. Lufthansa have a call option for a further 50.91%. [2] It wholly owns subsidiary airline, Germanwings.

[edit] Destinations

Eurowings operates the following services (at January 2005):[citation needed]

CRJ-200
CRJ-200
CRJ-200
CRJ-200
BAe 146-200
BAe 146-200

[edit] Fleet

The Eurowings fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2007):

In February 2007, the average Eurowings fleet age was 10.5 years.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Announcement of TUI AG [1]
  2. ^ Annual Report 2006. Lufthansa AG (Page 176). Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
  3. ^ Eurowings Fleet Age

[edit] External links

BAe 146-300
BAe 146-300
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