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Lufthansa People
Deutsche Lufthansa AG (), trading as the Lufthansa Group, is a German aviation group. Its major and founding subsidiary airline Lufthansa German Airlines, branded as Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Germany. It ranks List of largest airlines in Europe, second in Europe by passengers carried, as well as Largest airlines in the world, largest in Europe and fourth largest in the world by revenue. Lufthansa Airlines is also one of the five founding members of Star Alliance, which is the world's largest airline alliance, formed in 1997. Lufthansa was founded in 1953 and commenced operations in April 1955. Besides operating flights under its own brand Lufthansa Airlines, the Lufthansa Group also owns several other airlines, including Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Discover Airlines, Eurowings, ITA Airways and Swiss International Air Lines. The group also owns several aviation-related companies, including Global Load Control, Lufthansa Consulting, Lufthansa Flight Training, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boeing 747-8
The Boeing 747-8 is the final series of the large, long-range wide-body airliners in the Boeing 747 family from Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the largest model variant of the 747 and Boeing's largest aircraft overall. Following the introduction of the 747-400, Boeing explored larger 747 versions as potential competitors to the proposed double-deck Airbus A3XX, later developed as the Airbus A380. The stretched aircraft, initially called the ''747 Advanced'' was officially launched as the 747-8 on November 14, 2005, with the designation reflecting its technological ties to the 787 Dreamliner. At the time, Boeing forecasted a market of 300 aircraft. The 747-8's maiden flight was made by the freighter version, the 747-8F, on February 8, 2010, followed by the passenger version, the 747-8I Intercontinental, on March 20, 2011. The freighter version was delivered in October 2011, and the passenger variant entered commercial service in June 2012. The aircraft's fuselage was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines AG, often shortened to Austrian or AUA, is the flag carrier of Austria and a subsidiary of Lufthansa, the flag carrier of Germany. The airline is headquartered on the grounds of Vienna International Airport in Schwechat where it also maintains its airline hub, hub. As of July 2016, the airline flew to six domestic and more than 120 international year-round and seasonal destinations in 55 countries and is a member of the Star Alliance. Air Austria and Austrian Airways merged to form the airline in 1957, but its history dates back to the founding of Austrian Airways in 1923. Throughout much of the company's existence, it was a nationalisation, state-owned entity. On 31 March 1958, the airline performed its scheduled service, flying a leased Vickers Viscount from Vienna to Zürich and London; it subsequently purchased its own Viscount fleet. On 18 February 1963, Austrian ordered its first jet propulsion, jet-powered airliner, the Sud Aviation Caravelle. It subseque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Load Control
Global Load Control is a subsidiary company of the Lufthansa Group, and was established in Cape Town, South Africa in 2004. The company provides remote weight and balance and load control services to its parent company Lufthansa as well as other airlines. Global Load Control operates from its three centers in Cape Town, Brno and Istanbul. These three centers handle more than 140 Lufthansa stations and process some 1800 flights a day. Global Load Control's operations center in Cape Town became Lufthansa's first load control center outside of Germany. Before this, Lufthansa maintained two centralized load control centers in Munich and Frankfurt. History *2004: Global Load Control founded by Lufthansa in Cape Town, South Africa *2007: Second operations center established in Brno, Czech Republic *2009: Third operations center established in Istanbul, Turkey Controversy Lufthansa's decision to open a centralized load control center outside of Germany was unpopular with Lufthansa load ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edelweiss Air
Edelweiss Air AG is a Swiss leisure and charter airline and the sister company of Swiss International Air Lines and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. It operates flights to European and intercontinental destinations from its base at Zurich Airport. History Early years The airline was founded on 19 October 1995 in Bassersdorf, Switzerland, with just one aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83. The company's name is derived from the Swiss unofficial national flower, the Edelweiss, which is also painted on its aircraft. The fleet was subsequently expanded and renewed. In 1998, new Airbus A320-200s were introduced to replace the MD-83s, and in 1999 long-haul flights were commenced using the Airbus A330-200. For seven consecutive years between 2001 and 2008, Edelweiss Air received the golden ''Travelstar Award'' for its achievements. Until November 2008, Edelweiss Air was wholly owned by Kuoni Travel and had 190 employees, when the operating rights were sold to Swiss In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss International Air Lines
Swiss International Air Lines AG, stylized as SWISS, is the flag carrier of Switzerland and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, as well as a Star Alliance member. It operates scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Zurich Airport serves as its main hub and Geneva Airport as its secondary hub. Its headquarters are at Kloten (near Zurich Airport), Switzerland, and an office at Zurich Airport in Kloten, Switzerland. The company's registered office is in Basel. The airline was formed following the bankruptcy in 2002 of Swissair, Switzerland's then-flag carrier. The new airline was built around what had been Swissair's regional subsidiary, Crossair. ''Swiss'' retains Crossair's IATA code ''LX'' (Swissair's code was ''SR''). It assumed Swissair's old ICAO code of ''SWR'' (Crossair's was ''CRX''), to maintain international traffic rights. History Beginnings Swiss was formed after the 2002 bankruptcy of Swissair, Switzerland's for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SunExpress
SunExpress is a Turkish-German airline based in Antalya. SunExpress was founded in October 1989 as a joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. It operates scheduled and chartered passenger flights to 90 destinations in 30 countries in Europe as well as North Africa, the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Red Sea. The airline concentrates on international tourism, domestic Turkish flights to cities in Anatolia, and wet leasing. The total number of SunExpress employees is 5,000. History Foundation and early years SunExpress was founded in Antalya in October 1989 as a joint venture of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. Its first flight was in 1990. SunExpress became the first private airline company to offer international scheduled flights from Turkey with its first Antalya-Frankfurt flight in 2001. SunExpress opened its second base in İzmir and started to operate domestic flights in 2006. With this launch, SunExpress became the first airline company to connect İzmir w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lufthansa CityLine
Lufthansa CityLine Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, GmbH is a German regional airline with its headquarters on the grounds of Munich Airport. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa and maintains hubs at Frankfurt Airport and Munich Airport, from where it operates a dense domestic and European network on behalf of its parent company. History Early years The airline was founded as ''Ostfriesische Lufttaxi (OLT)'' in 1958 and became Ostfriesische Lufttransport (OLT) in 1970 - which existed until 2013 as a separate airline - in Emden Airport, Emden. It was reorganised and renamed as ''Lufthansa Regional, DLT Luftverkehrsgesellschaft'' mbH on 1 October 1974 and began cooperation with Lufthansa in 1978 with short-range international routes. By 1989, all operations were on behalf of Lufthansa. In March 1992, DLT became a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa and was renamed Lufthansa CityLine. Lufthansa CityLine employs 2,332 people, of whom 664 are cockpit crew, 849 ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lufthansa City Airlines
Lufthansa City Airlines GmbH, branded as Lufthansa City, is a German regional airline and a subsidiary of Lufthansa Group. It began operations on 26 June 2024. History Foundation and background The airline was founded in 2022 as City Airlines and later renamed Lufthansa City Airlines, it began operations in June 2024, operating from Munich Airport to various cities around Europe. The airline received its air operator's certificate in June 2023 and will operate using the brand name ''Lufthansa City''.aerotelegraph.com - "City Airlines to operate as Lufthansa City" (German) 25 October 2023 As of October 2023, the airline plans to launch operations in the summer of 2024 with 40 |
AeroLogic
AeroLogic GmbH is a German cargo airline based in Schkeuditz near Leipzig. It is a joint venture between DHL DHL (originally named after founders Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn) is a multinational Import-Export Expert Company, founded in the United States and headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It provides courier, package delivery, and express mail service, ... and Lufthansa Cargo which operates scheduled international and long-haul cargo services out of its hubs at Leipzig/Halle Airport and Frankfurt Airport. History The company was founded by DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo on 12 September 2007. Flight operations started on 29 June 2009, following the delivery of its first aircraft on 12 May of that year, a Boeing 777 Freighter, making AeroLogic the first German operator of that type. Fleet As of April 2025, the AeroLogic fleet consists of the following aircraft: References External links Official website {{DHL Aviation Airlines of Germany Airlines established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo AG is a German cargo airline and a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa. It operates worldwide air freight and logistics services and is headquartered at Frankfurt Airport, Lufthansa's main hub. Besides operating dedicated cargo planes, the company also has access to cargo capacities of 350 passenger aircraft of the Lufthansa Group. History Foundation and early years Recognizing the growing importance of the cargo business, Lufthansa established its cargo subsidiary in 1977 called German Cargo Services GmbH. Previously, cargo operations were executed in-house, under the ''Lufthansa Cargo'' name, when – in an effort to restructure the company – the cargo division was re-integrated into its parent, and split up into two parts (one for scheduled operations using Lufthansa-owned aircraft, and one for freight and logistics services using chartered or leased aircraft). In 1996, Hinduja Cargo Services was founded as a joint venture between Hinduja Group and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITA Airways
Italia Trasporto Aereo S.p.A. (), doing business as ITA Airways, is the flag carrier of Italy. It is owned by the government of Italy, via the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and Lufthansa Group. The airline was founded in 2020 as a successor to the bankrupt Alitalia. The airline flies to over 70 scheduled domestic, European, and intercontinental destinations. Its main hub is Rome Fiumicino Airport and a focus city is Milan Linate Airport. In 2025, ITA Airways announced that the airline will be ending its membership in SkyTeam to join Star Alliance in 2026, as part of the airline's integration into the Lufthansa Group. History Background Italy's flag carrier Alitalia had been in operation since 1946. It was owned by the Italian government until 2009 when it became a private company after reorganizing and merging with the bankrupt Italian airline Air One. Alitalia reorganized again in 2015 after receiving an investment from Etihad Airways, with Air France-KLM already ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurowings Europe
Eurowings Europe is a low-cost airline registered in Malta. Eurowings Europe operates and maintains aircraft used on flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by its sister airline, the Germany based Eurowings. Both airlines are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Lufthansa Group. History About a week after obtaining its air operator's certificate from the Austrian civil aviation authorities, Eurowings Europe departed its initial base in Vienna for Alicante on 23 June 2016, its maiden flight. It has adopted the corporate identity of its German sister airline, Eurowings. In September 2019, Lufthansa Group announced, that Austrian Airlines will lease four Airbus A320-200 from Eurowings Europe starting January 2020. The airline will also take over some of Austrian Airlines' flights from Salzburg Airport and Innsbruck Airport. The Austrian Airlines wet lease contract for four aircraft in Vienna was withdrawn in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2019, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
