Contact Air

Contact Air
IATA
C3		 ICAO
KIS		 Callsign
CONTACTAIR
Founded 1974
Operating bases Stuttgart Airport
Zürich Airport
Frequent-flyer program Miles & More
Alliance Star Alliance
Fleet size 8
Destinations 22
Headquarters Stuttgart, Germany
Key people Gunther Eheim
Website www.contactair.de

Contact Air Flugdienst is a regional airline headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany,[1] operating scheduled services as part of Lufthansa Regional out of Stuttgart Airport, and on behalf of Swiss International Airlines (which is a Lufthansa subsidiary) out of Zürich Airport.[2]

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History

The airline was established by Gunther Eheim (who is the whole owner until today) as a worldwide passenger and executive charter airline and started operations in 1974 with an initial fleet of Dassault Falcon 20 and Bombardier Learjet aircraft. Contact Air became the first partner airline in the Team Lufthansa regional group in April 1996. On 16 October 2003 the airline introduced the new Lufthansa Regional brand and began operating as such in early 2004.[2]

Destinations

At April 2010, Contact Air operates the following scheduled services on behalf of Lufthansa and Swiss International Air Lines :[3]

Operating for Lufthansa
Operating for Swiss

Terminated destinations

Operated for Lufthansa
Operated for Swiss

Fleet

As of December 2010, the Contact Air fleet consists of 8 Fokker 100 aircraft with an average age of 16.8 years.[4][5][6]

Aircraft Number in fleet Seats Operated for
Fokker 100 6 100 Lufthansa Regional
2 Swiss International Airlines

Fleet development

Over the years, Contact Air operated the following aircraft types:[7]

Aircraft Introduced Retired
ATR 42
2003
2010
ATR 72
2005
2010
Dash 8-100
1986
1994
Dash 8-300
1990
1997
Fokker 50
1996
2004
Fokker 100
2008
Still operating

Incidents and accidents

References

  1. ^ "Contact." Contact Air. Retrieved on 21 May 2009. "Contact Air Flugdienst GmbH + Co. Echterdinger Strasse 30 D-70599 Stuttgart (Plieningen)"
  2. ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 68. 2007-04-03. 
  3. ^ Contact Air destinations
  4. ^ Contact Air official fleet page
  5. ^ Contact Air official Route Page
  6. ^ Contact Air fleet list at planespotters.net
  7. ^ Contact Air former fleet at airfleets.net
  8. ^ Lufthansa Flight 5634 at the Aviation safety Network
  9. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://www.aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20090914-0. Retrieved 28 September 2009. 
  10. ^ "SPD-Chef Müntefering übersteht Notlandung". Der Spiegel. September 14, 2009. http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,648811,00.html. Retrieved September 14, 2009. 

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