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| Founded | 1995 | |||
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| Hubs | Mannheim City Airport | |||
| Focus cities | Hamburg, Munich, Zurich | |||
| Frequent flyer program | Lufthansa Miles & More | |||
| Member lounge | Lufthansa Lounges | |||
| Fleet size | 20 | |||
| Destinations | 13 | |||
| Company slogan | connecting business | |||
| Headquarters | Hallbergmoos, Germany | |||
| Key people | Gerd Brandecker, Dr. Peter Clarner | |||
| Website | Cirrus Airlines | |||
Cirrus Airlines Luftfahrtgesellschaft mbH is an airline based in Munich, Germany. It operates both charter and scheduled flights, the latter on behalf of Lufthansa and Swiss International Air Lines. Its main base is Munich International Airport.[citation needed]
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History
Cirrus was founded in February 1995 as Cirrus Luftfahrtgesellschaft mbH and operated an executive charter business. In March 1998, Cirrus Airlines received its licence to operate scheduled services between Saarbrücken and Hamburg. In August 1999, Cirrus took over the route from Mannheim City Airport to Berlin Tempelhof from Cosmos Air.
An important step was taken in February 2000, upon the 5th anniversary of Cirrus Airlines, when it established a cooperative partnership with German owned Lufthansa and became a Team Lufthansa franchise member. In April that year, Cirrus received licences to operate regularly scheduled service between Mannheim City Airport and Hamburg and between Berlin and Sylt/Westerland. From 2001 onwards, Cirrus steadily expanded its business, with scheduled services opening between Saarbrücken and Berlin Tempelhof (March 2001), between Berlin Tempelhof and Heringsdorf Airport on the island of Usedom (May 2002), between Rostock and Munich (May 2002), between Leipzig/Halle and Zürich (January 2003), between Leipzig/Halle and Hamburg (January 2003), between Dresden and Hamburg (March 2003), between Frankfurt and Skopje, Macedonia (April 2003), between Leipzig/Halle and Cologne (May 2003), between Frankfurt and Ohrid (June 2003), between Mannheim City Airport and Dresden (March 2004), between Dresden and Zürich (April 2004), between Mannheim City Airport and Olbia (May 2004) and between Munich and London City (May 2004), between Mannheim City Airport and Munich (September 2008).
Cirrus Airlines is a company of Aviation Investment GmbH including Cirrus Technik (Maintenance), Cirrus Flight Training and nana tours. The group is operating 30 aircraft and has over 600 employees (at August 2009)[citation needed]. The company introduced a modified corporate identity in January 2008 and decided to move its headquarters from Saarbrücken to Munich.[1]
Destinations
Cirrus Airlines operates the following services (as of November 2009):
- Domestic scheduled destinations: Berlin (Tegel Airport), Dresden, Erfurt, Hamburg, Mannheim, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück and Stuttgart.
Incidents
On 19 March 2008, at 17:45 local time (16:45 UTC), a Cirrus Airlines Dornier 328 on a flight from Berlin Tempelhof overran the runway at Mannheim City Airport, causing substantial damage to the port wing, propellor, engine and undercarriage. The aircraft involved was D-CTOB, msn 3107. There were no injuries amongst the 24 passengers and three crew.[2]
Fleet
As of November 2009, the Cirrus Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft:[3][4]
- 14 Dornier 328-100 (one aircraft currently stored)
- 4 Dornier 328Jet (one aircraft operated for DC Aviation)
- 2 Embraer E 170 (one of which is operated for Lufthansa).
The average age of the Cirrus Airlines fleet is 7.4 years.[5]
Notes & References
- ^ "Martin Gauss to become CEO of Malév." Malév Hungarian Airlines. 16 April 2008. Retrieved on 22 May 2009.
- ^ "Aircraft accident Dornier Do-328 D-CTOB Mannheim Airport". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20080319-0. Retrieved 2008-09-26.
- ^ cirrusairlines.de − Fleet Retrieved 2009-08-21
- ^ Cirrus Airlines fleet list at ch-aviation.ch. Retrieved 200-12-27.
- ^ AeroTransport Data Bank − Fleet age Cirrus Airlines Retrieved 2009-08-21
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