Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter

Infobox Airline
airline = Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter

logo_size = 200
fleet_size = 6
destinations =
IATA = HE
ICAO = LGW
callsign = WALTER
parent =
company_slogan =
founded = 1980
headquarters =
key_people =
hubs = Dortmund Airport
secondary_hubs = Berlin-Tegel Airport, Düsseldorf International Airport
focus_cities =
frequent_flyer = topbonus
lounge =
alliance = Cooperation with airberlin
website = http://www.lgw.de/

LGW is a German regional airline officially known as Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter mbH. The Dortmund based airline transported about 50,000 passengers in 2003 and the expected sales is 13 million Euro in 2004. Altogether the company has approximately 75 employees, who are working in the parts flight operations, maintenance, ground operations, booking-center, flight-school and administration. Fact|date=February 2007

The airline operates scheduled domestic services from Dortmund and seasonal services to the North Sea islands. Its main base is Dortmund Airport.cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 107 | date= 2007-04-03]

History

The company was founded by German pilot instructor Bernd Walter, who still is the owner and CEO of LGW, at Dortmund Wickede Airport in 1980. At the outset the small company offered flights to German North Sea islands, sightseeing-flights and flight-training with a single Cessna U 206 "Stationair". In 1988 LGW expanded with buying a Britten-Norman Islander for the North Sea flights. Fact|date=February 2007

After German reunification LGW was one of the first German airlines which started flights from West Germany to the former German Democratic Republic. LGW connected with Cessna 404 Dortmund with Berlin, Erfurt and other cities in former East Germany. As of 1992 the fleet was replaced by Dornier Do 228. In the meantime LGW took up new routes (e.g. from/to Hanover, Paderborn/Lippstadt or Rostock/Laage) and has become one of the biggest regional airlines in North Rhine-Westphalia. In recent years LGW took over many routes, which were left by other airlines, e.g. the route Dortmund-Nuremberg (in 2002, ex. Eurowings), Dortmund-Stuttgart (in 2003, ex. European Air Express) and Dortmund-Berlin-Tempelhof (in 2004, ex. City Air Germany). Fact|date=February 2007

Destinations

Destinations served:

*From/to Berlin-Tegel
**Westerland/Sylt

*From/to Dortmund
**Westerland/Sylt

*From/to Düsseldorf
**Westerland/Sylt

*From/to Hanover
**Westerland/Sylt

*From/to Westerland/Sylt
**Berlin
**Dortmund
**Düsseldorf
**Hanover

Fleet

As of March 2007 the LGW fleet includes :

*5 Dornier Do 228-212
*1 Dornier Do 228-100Used for all domestic and charter flights.

Other aircraft: Fact|date=June 2007
*2 Cessna 172 Used for sightseeing-flights around Dortmund, Flight training and pilot-charter.
*2 Cessna 152 Used for Flight training and pilot-charter.

References

External links

* [http://www.lgw.de/ Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter]