Eurowings

Eurowings

IATA EW ICAO EWG Callsign EUROWINGS
Founded	1993
Commenced operations	1 January 1994
Hubs	Düsseldorf International Airport
Focus cities	Nuremberg Airport
Frequent-flyer program	Miles & More
Alliance	Star Alliance
Fleet size	24
Destinations	48
Parent company	Lufthansa
Headquarters	Düsseldorf, Germany
Key people	Friedrich Wilhelm Weitholz (Chairman)
Website	www.eurowings.com

A Eurowings Bombardier CRJ900 taxiing at Berlin Tegel Airport (2010).

A Eurowings Bombardier CRJ200 in Lufthansa Regional livery landing at Birmingham International Airport (2007).

A Eurowings BAe 146-300 landing at Bristol International Airport, England (2008).

A BAe 146-200 landing at London Heathrow Airport, featuring the now discontinued Eurowings livery (2006).

Eurowings Luftverkehrs AG, part of Lufthansa Regional, is an airline with its head office in the Dortmund Administrative Center Dortmund, Germany,^[1] with Düsseldorf designated as the seat of the company.^[2] Eurowings operates scheduled domestic and European flights on behalf of Lufthansa. The headquarters and maintenance base at Dortmund Airport were recently closed. The base at Nuremberg Airport will be shut in spring 2011.^{[citation needed]}

History

The airline was formed in 1993 following a merger of Nürnberger Flugdienst (NFD) and Reise- und Industrieflug (RFG), two commuter airlines based in Nürnberg and Dortmund, respectively. Flight operations using an initial fleet of ATR 42 and 72 aircraft inherited from Eurowing's predecessors were launched on 1 January 1994. Subsequently, BAe 146 aircraft were added to the fleet, which were later followed by larger Airbus A320 family aircraft and even an Airbus A310.^[3] Independent flight operations came to end when Eurowings was acquired by Lufthansa.^[when?]

As at 31 December 2006, Lufthansa had a 49% shareholding in Eurowings with a call option for 50.91% of the remaining stakes, bringing the company into the Lufthansa Group fold.^[4] At that time, Eurowings was the owner of Germanwings, thus creating a low-cost branch within the Lufthansa concern. Plans to merge these two airlines with TUIfly (controlled by TUI Travel) into a joint and independent holding company, were brought forth during 2008, but did not materialize.^[5] Instead, Lufthansa announced in December 2008 to acquire Germanwings from Eurowings.^[6]

In September 2010 Eurowings closed its headquarters in Dortmund, Germany, and the technical infrastructure as well and moved to Düsseldorf. As from March 2011 the maintenance at Nürnberg Airport will be closed down, too.

Destinations

As of December 2010, Eurowings operates scheduled flights to the following services destinations, which are all operated on behalf of Lufthansa:

• Austria
  • Vienna - Vienna International Airport

• Bulgaria
  • Sofia - Sofia Airport

• Croatia
  • Dubrovnik - Dubrovnik Airport [seasonal]
  • Zadar - Zadar Airport [seasonal][begins 26 May]

• Czech Republic
  • Prague - Prague Ruzyně Airport

• France
  • Lyon - Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport

• Germany
  • Berlin - Berlin Tegel Airport
  • Dresden - Dresden Airport
  • Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf International Airport hub
  • Hamburg - Hamburg Airport
  • Leipzig - Leipzig/Halle Airport
  • Nuremberg - Nuremberg Airport focus city

• Hungary
  • Budapest - Budapest Ferihegy International Airport

• Iceland
  • Reykjavík - Reykjavík Airport [seasonal]

• Ireland
  • Dublin - Dublin Airport [seasonal, begins 6 May]
  • Knock - Ireland West Airport Knock [seasonal, begins 7 May]

• Italy
  • Bari - Bari Airport [seasonal, begins 5 May]
  • Catania - Catania Airport [seasonal, begins 25 March]
  • Turin - Turin Caselle Airport
  • Olbia - Olbia – Costa Smeralda Airport [seasonal]
  • Venice - Venice Marco Polo Airport

• Norway
  • Oslo - Oslo Airport, Gardermoen

• Poland
  • Gdańsk - Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport
  • Katowice - Katowice International Airport
  • Kraków - John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice
  • Warsaw - Warsaw Chopin Airport
  • Wroclaw - Copernicus Airport Wrocław

• Portugal
  • Lisbon - Lisbon Portela Airport

• Romania
  • Bucharest - Henri Coandă International Airport

• Spain
  • Barcelona - Barcelona Airport
  • Bilbao - Bilbao Airport
  • Madrid - Madrid-Barajas Airport
  • Valencia - Valencia Airport

• Sweden
  • Gothenburg - Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport
  • Stockholm - Stockholm-Arlanda Airport

• Switzerland
  • Basel - EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
  • Geneva - Geneva International Airport

• United Kingdom
  • Birmingham - Birmingham Airport, West Midlands
  • Manchester - Manchester Airport
  • Newcastle upon Tyne - Newcastle Airport
  • Newquay - Newquay Cornwall Airport [seasonal]

Fleet

As of August 2011, the Eurowings fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 4.0 years, which are all painted in Lufthansa Regional colors:^[7][8]

Eurowings fleet

Aircraft	In Service	Passengers
Bombardier CRJ200	1	50
Bombardier CRJ900	23	86
Total	24

Fleet development

Over the years, Eurowings operated the following aircraft types:^[3]

Aircraft	Introduced	Retired
Airbus A310	1994	1995
Airbus A319	1997	2002
Airbus A320	2002	2003
ATR 42	1994	2005
ATR 72	1994	2006
Boeing 737-300	2001	2003
BAe 146	1994	2010
Bombardier CRJ200	2001	2011
Bombardier CRJ700	2007	2011
Bombardier CRJ900	2009

Incidents

On 22 February 1998 at 19:28 local time, a Eurowings ATR 72 (registered D-ANFA) was hit by the exhaust blast of a Tupolev Tu-154 while taxiing at Frankfurt Airport following a scheduled flight from Berlin Tempelhof Airport. The nose gear of the ATR was lifted in the air by a least 1 metre and was substantially damaged when the aircraft slammed back on the ground. The incident occurred because the Eurowings pilot had misinterpreted an ATC clearance and started taxiing behind the Tupolev instead of holding the position.^[9]

References

1. ^ "Dortmund Administrative Center." Eurowings. Retrieved on 28 January 2011. "Dortmund Administrative Center Eurowings Luftverkehrs AG Flugplatz 21 44319 Dortmund Germany."
2. ^ "Imprint." Eurowings. Retrieved on 28 January 2011.
3. ^ ^{a b} Eurowings historic fleet list at airfleets.net
4. ^ "Annual Report 2006" (PDF). Lufthansa AG. Page 176. http://www.lufthansa-financials.de/servlet/PB/show/1020976/DLH_GB_2006e.pdf. Retrieved 2007-08-16. 
5. ^ Announcement of TUI AG
6. ^ Eurowings to sell Germanwings stake to Lufthansa
7. ^ Eurowings fleet list at ch-aviation.ch
8. ^ Eurowings fleet age at airfleets.net
9. ^ 1998 Eurowings incident at the Aviation Safety Network

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