Lufthansa CityLine
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ICAO CLH |
Callsign HANSALINE |
| Founded | 1958 as Ostfriesische Lufttaxi[1] | |
| Hubs | Frankfurt International Airport Munich - Franz Josef Strauß Int'l Airport |
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| Focus cities | All major German Airports | |
| Frequent flyer program | Miles & More | |
| Member lounge | Senator Lounge | |
| Alliance | Star Alliance | |
| Fleet size | 79 (+45 orders) | |
| Destinations | 75 | |
| Parent company | Deutsche Lufthansa AG | |
| Headquarters |  Cologne, Germany |
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| Key people | Wolfgang Mayrhuber (CEO), Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley (CFO) | |
| Website: http://www.lufthansacityline.com/ | ||
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Lufthansa CityLine GmbH is an airline based in Cologne, Germany. It is a wholly owned subsidiary regional airline of Lufthansa and member of the Lufthansa Regional network. It is the largest regional airline in Europe. Its main base is Cologne Bonn Airport, with hubs at Hamburg Airport, Frankfurt International Airport, Düsseldorf International Airport and Munich International Airport [1].
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[edit] History
The airline was founded as Ostfriesische Lufttaxi (OLT) in 1958 and became Ostfriesische Lufttransport (OLT) in 1970 (still exists today as a separate airline) in Emden. It was reorganised and renamed as DLT Luftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH on 1 October 1974 and began cooperation with Lufthansa in 1978 with short-range international routes. By 1988 all operations were on behalf of Lufthansa. In March 1992 DLT became a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa and was renamed Lufthansa CityLine. It had 2,520 employees (at July 2007).[1].
[edit] Destinations
As of July 2007, Lufthansa CityLine operated the following services[2] :
- Domestic scheduled destinations: Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Friedrichshafen, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Münster, Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
- International scheduled destinations: Amsterdam, Balaton, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Bastia, Belgrade, Bergen, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bordeaux, Bornholm, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Cagliari, Copenhagen, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Florence, Gdańsk, Geneva, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Katowice, Kiev, Kraków, Linz, London, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Naples, Newquay, Newcastle, Nice, Olbia, Oslo, Paderborn, Paris, Prague, Rome, Rostov, Sarajevo, Sofia, Stavanger, Stockholm, Timişoara, Tirana, Toulouse, Valencia, Verona, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Westerland, Yerevan, Zagreb and Zürich.
[edit] Fleet
The Lufthansa CityLine fleet includes the following aircraft (March 2007)[1] :
- 18 Avro RJ85ER
- 16 Bombardier CRJ-100LR
- 10 Bombardier CRJ-200LR
- 20 Bombardier CRJ-700ER
- 12 Bombardier CRJ-900 (15 on order)
- The average Lufthansa CityLine fleet age is 8.3 years old in July 2006 [3].
- Lease extensions have been signed on 13 of the Avro RJ85 fleet, which means they will remain in service with the airline well into the next decade [4].
- Lufthansa placed an order on April 17, 2007 for 30 Embraer E-190 and 15 Bombardier CRJ-900 aircraft to directly replace its fleet of BAe 146 and Avro RJ aircraft, of which 18 are operated by Lufthansa CityLine and 24 by Swiss European Air Lines. All of the Embraer E-190s are expected to be flown by Swiss.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 108.
- ^ Lufthansa CityLine destinations
- ^ Lufthansa CityLine Fleet Age
- ^ Airliner World, January 2007
- ^ "Lufthansa confirms regional plans", Airliner World, June 2007, p. 4.
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